Michail Yasonik
Engineering Manager, Design Systems And Accessibility at Gusto
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMichail Yasonik is an engineering manager and accessibility leader with 13 years of front-end experience, currently running Design Systems and Accessibility at Gusto after senior accessibility roles at Airbnb and ServiceNow. He specializes in building scalable, resilient UI components, embedding accessibility into the SDLC, and operationalizing WCAG/ARIA compliance across large organizations. Michail pairs hands-on engineering—authoring complex components, automating accessibility testing in CI, and upgrading tooling like axe-core—with people leadership: training hundreds of engineers, running bootcamps, and coaching cross-functional teams. Notably, he has represented a major vendor in W3C working groups and has a practical knack for shipping low-friction accessibility wins that reduce test flakiness and developer overhead. Based in Chicago, he blends product-minded thinking with deep front-end craft to make inclusive interfaces that scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, Russian
Github Skills (100)
opensearch10
css-in-js10
csh10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
jsx10
charts10
eui10
voiceover10
api10
testcafe10
visual-regression-testing10
observability10
histogram10
axe10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
myasonik/eui
Jul 2019 - Aug 2021
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 168 pushes in 2 years
elasticframeworkelastic-uiui-framework
myasonik/Front-end_Boilerplate
May 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 13 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 8 months
sassgulpcssjadescss
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