Maya Benari

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Maya Benari is a senior product designer with 12 years of experience specializing in design systems and front-end UX, currently leading the Everest Design System at Dayforce from Los Angeles. She blends hands-on UI development with system-level thinking—building component libraries, Storybook workflows, and visual regression tooling—to help cross-functional teams ship consistent, accessible products. Her background at 18F and contributions to the U.S. Web Design System and Storybook reflect deep public-sector experience and a focus on accessibility and scalable documentation. Maya has led fast-turnaround projects for federal agencies (including COVID reporting and Space Force portals), showing she thrives under tight constraints while mentoring junior designers. She also contributes to open-source projects that improve developer-facing experiences, such as implementing Prism syntax highlighting and enhancing social/metadata for USWDS sites—small, practical improvements that boost usability and shareability.

12 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

University of California, Los Angeles

Github Skills (31)

accessibility10

javascript10

website-development10

storybook10

ui-components10

css10

system-design10

ui-design10

carbon-design-system10

component-kit10

f10

federation10

front-end-development10

performance-optimization10

optimisation10

Programming languages (10)

TypeScriptJavaCSSShellSCSSJavaScriptGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

uswds/uswds

Jun 2015 - May 2021

The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:22 releases, 2 reviews, 2404 commits in 6 years

Contributions summary:Maya's commits primarily focused on the implementation of the Prism syntax highlighter, which was added to the project. They added the necessary CSS and JavaScript files for Prism and integrated them into the project's HTML files to enable code syntax highlighting. They also updated the styleguide to display the code snippets correctly.

mobiledesign-systemsdesigngovernmentuswds

uswds/uswds-site

Sep 2016 - Apr 2019

The U.S. Web Design System documentation website, a design system for the federal government.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:510 commits, 274 PRs, 471 pushes in 2 years 7 months

Contributions summary:Maya's contributions primarily focused on the implementation of front-end components for the U.S. Web Design System documentation website. They fixed issues related to the sticky navigation, modified the page templates and added a sidenav, and made changes to the mobile and secondary navigation. The user updated code for a landing page and documentation page, adding functionality to include code samples. The user's work improved the user experience and added features.

gulpdocumentation-generatoruswdsapi-documentationcommunity-management

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