Makenna Smutz
Co-Founder at Navattic
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMakenna Smutz is a product-focused design engineer and repeat founder with eight years of experience building polished frontend experiences, design systems, and data-heavy UIs. Based in New York, she blends hands-on engineering (TypeScript, React, Next.js) with product design, having single-handedly designed, prototyped, and shipped apps and marketing sites across multiple startups. She’s built and scaled bespoke design systems—authoring 65+ components, Storybook docs, and Figma tooling—that moved internal teams to full adoption and enabled open-source growth. Beyond core product work she runs consumer ventures (an organic cotton candy e-commerce and a specialty coffee subscription), showing a knack for turning design sensibilities into tangible brands. Colleagues describe her as the go-to person for polishing UX down to micro-interactions while keeping engineering and product processes humming.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business
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Github Skills (161)
ui-components10
css-in-js10
component-library10
uikit10
react-components10
modular10
chakra10
ark-ui10
codesandbox10
gatsby10
chakra-ui10
wai-aria10
react-applications10
typescript10
preact10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KenzoBenzo/personal-portfolio
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
My personal portfolio in a site.
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 months
in-portfolioreactnextjs
meeshkan/webapp
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
The great and mighty Meeshkan webapp!
Contributions:2 reviews, 257 commits, 50 PRs in 6 months
webappgreatmighty
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