Manuel Carrera
Senior Software Engineer at Workday
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Carrera is a Senior Software Engineer and design systems specialist with 11 years of experience, currently shaping UI foundations at Workday from his base in Boulder, Colorado. He combines a strong graphic-design background (MFA, RIT) with front-end engineering, evolving from junior developer roles to leading component work in Workday’s Canvas Kit. Manuel focuses on accessible, internationalized UI components—shipping button variants, theming, and refactors that bridge CSS and React implementations. Known to colleagues as Manny, he pairs a designer’s eye for detail with pragmatic engineering, often fixing subtle bugs in components like SidePanel, Avatar, IconButton, and Checkbox. Outside of production work he contributes to open-source design-system tooling, proving he really does “build buttons sometimes” while driving broader UX consistency at scale.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Graphic Design Marketing Minor, MFA Graphic Design Marketing Minor at Rochester Institute of TechnologyCarol Morgan School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
accessibility10
css10
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Workday/canvas-kit
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Development kits to implement UI following the Workday Canvas Design System (https://canvas.workday.com/). See our Component Storybook -
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2202 reviews, 107 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `canvas-kit` repository, addressing UI-related issues and enhancements. Their contributions included fixing bugs in the `SidePanel`, `Avatar`, `IconButton`, and `Checkbox` components. The user also refactored and updated CSS styles to align with the React implementations for components like `actionBar`, `Card`, and `PageHeader`, while implementing new button variants and theming for other components like `TextInput`, `TextArea`, and `Pill`. Furthermore, the user enhanced component accessibility and internationalization features.
storybookdesign-systemworkday
mannycarrera4/canvas-kit-actions
Jul 2022 - Nov 2025
GH Actions to support Canvas Kit
Contributions:1 push, 8 branches in 3 years 4 months
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