Michael Taranto
Design System Engineering Lead at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Taranto is a Design System Engineering Lead with 12 years of experience building cohesive, accessible web experiences at SEEK from hands-on UI work to leading front-end practice. He specializes in design systems, TypeScript migrations and tooling, and has contributed to notable open-source projects like Braid, Playroom and capsize—bringing practical improvements to typography, developer ergonomics and zero-runtime styling. Michael combines engineering leadership with deep front-end craft: he’s refactored core components, introduced dark mode and editor improvements, and added language-level support in build tooling. Based in Melbourne, he pairs formal computer science training with a pragmatic streak from long-tenured product engineering, often focusing on developer experience as much as end-user UI.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Italian Language, Diploma, Italian Language at SwinburnBachelor, Computer Science & Software Development, Bachelor, Computer Science & Software Development at Deakin University
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Github Skills (21)
babel610
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
typescript10
system10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
babel-core10
babeljs10
typescripts10
lessc10
frontend10
codemirror10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seek-oss/capsize
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Flipping how we define typography in CSS.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 169 commits, 172 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, working on the website's user interface. Their commits involved the implementation and styling of various UI components using Chakra UI and React. They focused on integrating font selection functionality, adding text previews, and creating a capsize selector to manipulate font sizes.
csstypographyfont-sizeflipping
seek-oss/playroom
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Design with JSX, powered by your own component library.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 82 commits, 125 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Playroom project, a design tool for React component libraries. Their work included adding essential tooling like ESLint, Prettier, and badges to improve code quality and maintainability. They also addressed issues related to dependencies and implemented new features such as the ability to re-position the editor and add line numbers within the code editor. Furthermore, they introduced dark mode support.
reactdesigndesign-systemjsxdesign-systems
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