Leslie Cohn-wein
Staff Engineering Manager, Design Systems at GitHub
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeslie Cohn-wein is a design-minded frontend engineering leader with 10 years of experience building accessible, scalable design systems and customer-facing React applications. Currently a Staff Engineering Manager leading Primer at GitHub, Leslie combines hands-on front-end craft—CSS, a11y, and component architecture—with team coaching and cross-functional delivery. Previously at Netlify they were the company’s first Staff Frontend Engineer and led Growth efforts that shipped data-driven experiments, a central dashboard, and a technical plan for a design system during rapid Series C growth. Leslie contributes to open-source front-end projects (improving UI/UX and maintainability on repos like StaticGen) and champions visual regression testing, TypeScript migrations, and developer experience improvements. Based in Dallas, they pair pragmatic product focus with agency-honed craft, having built award-winning responsive sites and interactive visualizations earlier in their career. Outside work they’re a “frontend people person” who balances React and accessibility advocacy with a fondness for wine and design.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at LC Anderson High SchoolBA, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, BA, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at University of Denver
Hebrew, Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
gatsby9
ui-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
netlify/staticgen
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
StaticGen.com, A leaderboard of top open-source static site generators
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Leslie focused on refining the project's front-end components. They corrected spacing issues, adjusted the visual presentation of project cards and added functionality to display repo information. Their work also involved organizing and exporting helper functions to improve code maintainability and structure. These changes contribute to a cleaner and more user-friendly interface.
leaderboardstatic-sitegeneratorsmarkdownstatic-site-generator
lesliecdubs/spreading-the-jam
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
The Jamstack is revolutionizing the way we think about our development workflows. With a single push to git, we can deploy our sites and apps with an expectation that they will perform better, scale with ease, and cost less.
Contributions:47 commits, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pushgatsby-sitethinknetlify-formsscale
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