Summary
Matt Felten is a Principal Design Engineer in Los Angeles with 12 years of experience building design systems and platform UX for enterprise SaaS. He blends hands-on product design with engineering leadership, having scaled cross-functional teams and shipped platform-level workflows that improved operational efficiency and adoption. Matt has led design system renaissances at multiple companies—reducing redundant work, accelerating time-to-market, and driving measurable efficiency gains across products. He’s comfortable shipping React/TypeScript component libraries and internal tools that save teams hours each month, while also translating strategic priorities into execution through planning and alignment. Known to colleagues as a pragmatic systems thinker, he plays at the intersection of design, frontend engineering, and product strategy. Outside of work he jokes about being a “pizzatarian” and builds design systems “for fun and profit,” signaling a practical curiosity that fuels his craft.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Design and Visual Communications, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Design and Visual Communications, General at Westwood College-Anaheim
English, css, sass, html, javascript, jquery