Summary
Kevyn Arnott is a hybrid design and engineering leader with a decade of experience building design systems, platforms, and teams that accelerate product delivery across consumer and crypto products. Currently Senior Director and Head of Central Foundations at Yahoo, he leads cross-disciplinary engineers and designers to create scalable tooling that shortens build times and elevates design quality enterprise-wide. Prior roles at Snap, Coinbase, Lyft, Facebook, and Dropbox reflect a consistent focus on automation, platformization, and multi-platform consistency from mobile to AR. Kevyn’s background in English, French, and History gives him uncommon strength in crafting clear design narratives and aligning diverse stakeholders around technical strategy. He’s known for turning small teams into organization-wide foundations groups, blending practical engineering with product-minded design leadership. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on design sensibility with systems thinking to make complex ecosystems more collaborative and efficient.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA English French History, BA English French History at Armstrong State University
English, French