Natalya Shelburne
Product Design Manager, Design Systems at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalya Shelburne is a product design leader and multidisciplinary creator with 11 years of experience building design systems, front-end architecture, and high-performing teams at companies like Datadog, GitHub, and The New York Times. She blends hands-on design and engineering—authoring the Design Engineering Handbook and teaching a Modular Design Patterns with React course at Harvard Extension—with strategic leadership of large-scale systems like Primer and DRUIDS. Her background in studio art, psychology, and creativity education informs a people-first approach to mentorship and team growth, while her early career as an art director and community-builder gives her a knack for translating creative practice into scalable tooling. Known for crossing disciplinary boundaries, she thrives at the intersection of design and code and frequently speaks, writes, and advocates for community-driven design engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education (M.Ed.) Creative Development/Teaching of the Gifted and Talented, Master of Education (M.Ed.) Creative Development/Teaching of the Gifted and Talented at Texas State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Studio Art and Psychology Double Major, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Studio Art and Psychology Double Major at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (30)
octicons10
rails10
bootstrap-icons10
designer10
svg10
jekyll10
asset-pipeline10
nodejs10
scalable10
css9
clarity9
gatsby-plugin9
component-library9
react9
pattern-lab9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tallys/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Dec 2020
.files, including ~/.osx — sensible hacker defaults for OS X
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 3 months
sensiblewindowsosxlinuxos-x
tallys/color-theory
Oct 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:63 commits, 15 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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