Summary
Meryem Kaftar is a Design Engineer and front-end developer based in Berlin with four years of experience blending UX/UI design and production-quality React development. She ships polished interfaces using React, Next.js and TypeScript, and pairs that engineering fluency with visual design tools like Figma, Photoshop and Illustrator to own both experience and implementation. Her recent roles at Vercel, Clerk.com and AI-startup Hypermode highlight a focus on fast, design-driven product work and building AI-enabled UIs. As an early designer/UI engineer at Pixelesq she led marketing site and brand efforts, showing she can move between product-facing systems and brand storytelling. Trained in Frontend Masters’ “Design to Code,” she brings strong CSS and motion skills (Framer Motion, Framer) that elevate interactions beyond static layouts. Colleagues describe her as someone who genuinely enjoys bringing ideas to life with both code and craft.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
"Design to Code" course from Frontend Masters
Romanian, English, Turkish