Michael Perrotti
Staff Product Designer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Perrotti is a Staff Product Designer with 12 years of experience crafting design systems and front-end experiences, currently shaping product at Datadog after leading design systems work at GitHub. He blends a BFA in Graphic Design with hands-on engineering, having contributed React components and accessibility improvements to GitHub’s widely used Primer design system. Known for bridging design and code, he moved between roles as a UI engineer, UX engineer, and frontend developer at companies like Meetup and D2iQ, shipping pragmatic, scalable component-driven interfaces. Michael’s work emphasizes accessible, responsive components and developer-friendly tooling—skills honed by both product design and active open-source collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Graphic Design at University of the Arts
Github Skills (14)
accessibility10
component-development10
system10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
styled-components9
system-design8
component-library8
sys8
ui-design8
carbon-design-system8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
primer/react
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
An implementation of GitHub's Primer Design System using React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:751 reviews, 81 commits, 289 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of React components within the Primer Design System. Their work included creating token components, refactoring existing components, and adding new components such as a text input with tokens and autocomplete components. The user also focused on component styling, added responsive designs, improved accessibility by updating ARIA attributes and adding focus styles, and implemented a loading indicator. These contributions improved the functionality, visual design, and user experience of the Primer React library.
reactprimercomponent-librarydesign-system
meetuparchive/swarm-icons
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Icons module for Swarm Design System
Contributions:312 commits, 145 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year 8 months
swarmiconsdesign-systemweb-platform
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