Josh Harwood
New Zealand Chapter Lead at Xero
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJosh Harwood is a Lead Design Technologist with a decade of experience building and scaling design systems that help teams ship cohesive, accessible products faster. Based in Auckland, he has led design system initiatives at Xero, Westpac NZ, MATTR and Spark, blending product design, engineering and automation to simplify delivery across platforms. He champions systems thinking, community collaboration (co-running the NZ Design Systems Community) and accessibility—having helped MATTR become one of NZ’s first startups to earn an Accessibility Tick. Outside day-to-day work he launches and curates resources like designsystems.media and toolkit.design, and continually tinkers with automations and tooling to reduce repetitive work.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Production Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Multimedia Production Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia Bachelor of Technology (BTech) at Strode CollegeDigital Media Digital Design, Digital Media Digital Design at University of the Arts London
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Github Skills (81)
testing10
javascript10
html10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
react-native10
vite10
web-components10
webpack10
react10
storybook9
ui-components9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NoWorries/chrome-figma-ui-mod
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Opinionated enhancements to Figma UI
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 48 PRs in 2 years
NoWorries/toolkit-hugo-ssg
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:52 PRs, 94 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 5 months
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