Lucas Smith
Senior Design Manager at Reddit, Inc.
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Smith is a senior design leader with 11 years of experience building AI-powered products, design systems, and tooling at scale for companies like Reddit, Airbnb, and Splunk. He currently manages Reddit’s product design system, accessibility, horizontal UI efforts, and a prototyping team, having previously served as the company’s first Principal Designer and Staff Design Technologist. Lucas blends hands-on engineering—shipping React components, Figma plugins, and occasional PRs—with product and people management to bridge design and software execution. He has a track record of creating robust design infrastructure enabling global teams, from founding a design studio to leading design tools at Airbnb. Known for pragmatic prototyping at the intersection of emerging tech, he brings a systems-level view to UX consistency and developer-facing design. Based in Georgia, he pairs a BS in Computer Information Systems with deep cross-functional fluency that accelerates product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Information Systems at College of Charleston
Github Skills (15)
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inline-styles6
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typescript4
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figma-plugin3
fonts2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
volanStudio/lucassmith.me
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
volanStudio/boilerplate-int
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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