Marco Serafino
Design System Lead at Emirates NBD
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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SeniorMarco Serafino is a Design System Lead with 8+ years building cohesive UX/UI and design systems across fintech, blockchain, and e-commerce, currently shaping Emirates NBD’s design system. He combines hands-on design, front-end development and product strategy, having founded a remote consulting studio and led design for fast-moving crypto projects like SingularityNET and Vulpem Ventures. Marco is fluent in cross-disciplinary collaboration—implementing agile workflows, running UX research programs, and coding component libraries to bridge design and engineering teams. His background includes teaching UX and developing production-ready component systems, which reflects a practical focus on scalable design operations. Based in Dubai with deep international experience (including time in Belgium), he pairs a traveller’s cultural curiosity with a persistent appetite for learning new technologies. Outside work he channels visual storytelling into photography and videomaking, bringing a strong visual philosophy to interface work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (48)
lcd9
complexity8
herokuapp8
lightning7
ghost7
bitcoin7
heroku-deployment7
pattern-lab6
raspberry-pi6
maintainability6
heroku6
railway6
statistics6
css6
pattern6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lovethesign/jeffrey
Nov 2018 - May 2019
jeffrey is a style guide and pattern library for building websites rapidly, designed for maintainability and modularity
Contributions:94 commits, 45 PRs, 83 pushes in 6 months
maintainabilitymodularitycssstyle-guideknockoutjs
sh3raf/odan-urr
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:14 PRs, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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