Laura Griffee
Design Technologist, Atrium Design System at Flatiron Health
Lander, Wyoming, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Griffee is a design technologist with nine years of experience specializing in design systems, frontend engineering, and product design for healthcare, commerce, and education organizations. She has led large-scale system overhauls—most notably driving token architecture and migration work on Shopify Polaris that supported a major redesign used by millions of merchants. Laura builds foundations that improve cross-discipline collaboration, accessibility, and code quality, whether creating systems from scratch at nonprofits or scaling them at enterprise level. Her hands-on contributions include enhancing navigation and tokenization in widely used open-source design system components. Based in Lander, Wyoming, she pairs a background in computing and media arts with field experience in outdoor education, bringing a pragmatic, user-centered perspective to mission-driven products. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate design intent into scalable, maintainable UI code and migration tooling.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Fox Lane High SchoolFront-End Web Developer Nanodegree Grow with Google Scholarship, Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree Grow with Google Scholarship at UdacityStudy Abroad Computer Science, Study Abroad Computer Science at AIT-BudapestBachelor of Arts (BA) Cum Laude Computing and Media Arts Self-Designed, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cum Laude Computing and Media Arts Self-Designed at Bowdoin CollegeStudy Abroad Interaction Design, Study Abroad Interaction Design at The Glasgow School of Art
Github Skills (9)
css10
typescript10
typescripts10
component-library10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
sys10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 259 reviews, 144 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the Shopify Polaris design system, focusing on enhancing the navigation component. Their work included adding an external link feature to navigation items, which involved implementing an external icon and associated functionality. They also refactored CSS tokens and replaced hardcoded values with tokens throughout the project, as well as addressed component-specific styling issues. Additionally, the user fixed issues with the existing code base, like removing unused classes.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
lgriffee/lauragriffee.com
Sep 2019 - Jan 2025
A single page React app for my personal website. https://lauragriffee.com/
Contributions:27 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 4 months
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