Lexis Hanson is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling front-end teams and design systems across startups and large tech companies. Currently at Stripe after leading New Verticals engineering at Chief, Lexis has a track record of taking 0-to-1 products from incubation to scale while influencing C-suite strategy and growing teams rapidly. She has deep hands-on expertise in TypeScript, React, GraphQL and design systems—having unified multiple internal component libraries at Apple and founded a dedicated Design System team at Chief that earned strong cross-functional NPS. An active contributor to the Salesforce Lightning Design System for React, Lexis blends pragmatic UI engineering with disciplined testing and performance improvements. Based in San Francisco and also an early-stage investor in AI and hospitality startups, she pairs product intuition with a talent-first hiring approach (100+ interviews in one year) to build durable engineering organizations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Finance, BS Finance at Arizona State University
MBA General Studies, MBA General Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Contributions:34 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lexis primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Salesforce Lightning Design System for React. Their work included updating the styling of existing components, such as the popover close button, and adding new features like the `classNameContainer` prop for text areas. They also focused on refactoring and improving the Avatar component, including adding new features and unit tests, and adding HTML avatar snapshots for testing. Furthermore, they worked on incorporating changes to example files to accommodate Storybook import updates.
Contributions:24 commits, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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