Marco Morales is a design technologist and principal UI developer based in Portland with over two decades of multidisciplinary experience crafting design systems, prototypes, and production-ready frontends for web and embedded products. He blends visual art direction and product design with hands-on engineering—especially React, TypeScript/Remix, Tailwind, and token-driven design workflows—to ship accessible, data-rich interfaces and reusable component libraries. Marco has led frontend architecture and design-system migrations (Styles to Variables, MUI to CSS variables) and built toolchains like token generators and automated component release pipelines that let designers safely experiment while keeping devs productive. Comfortable working remotely across time zones, he primarily consults and contracts but is open to permanent roles that match his flexible, results-focused style. A less obvious strength: his background in print, culinary arts, and long-form creative direction gives him an uncommon sensitivity for craft, information density, and cross-channel consistency.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Dev Bootcamp
Culinary Arts/Chef Training, Culinary Arts/Chef Training at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Chicago
Graphic Design, Advertising, Graphic Design, Advertising at Columbia College Chicago
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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Marco Morales - Design Technologist at ConvoConnection