Neil Pfeiffer
Senior Principal User Experience Designer at Oracle
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Pfeiffer is a Senior Principal User Experience Designer and front-end engineer with nearly two decades of cross-disciplinary experience crafting accessible, clinician-focused healthcare applications and scalable design systems. Based in Kansas City, he leads systems UI and Redwood-based component work for Oracle Health, drawing on his long stewardship of Cerner’s open-source Terra UI library to bridge design and engineering. He excels at turning complex clinical workflows into simple, usable interfaces while shipping pixel‑accurate React implementations and advocating for WCAG/Section 508 compliance. Neil is comfortable both authoring design strategy and reviewing pull requests, mentoring multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable improvements in clinical usability. His background includes hands-on prototyping across mobile, web, and embedded interfaces—an unusual blend of graphic design training and production engineering that informs pragmatic, inclusive product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
Minor, Latin Language and Literature, Minor, Latin Language and Literature at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design at Iowa State University - College of Design
Github Skills (12)
css10
uid10
javascript10
web-components10
component-kit10
frontend10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
terra10
react10
ui-components10
accessibility9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cerner/terra-core
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Terra offers a set of configurable React components designed to help build scalable and modular application UIs. This UI library was created to solve real-world issues in projects we work on day to day.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:94 reviews, 31 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Terra UI components within the `terra-core` repository. Their work included fixing examples, adding new features such as theming variables for radio and checkbox components, and implementing a ghost variant button. The user also refactored code related to the Paginator component to replace anchors with buttons for accessibility. Furthermore, the user focused on updating existing code by adding support for new features to the search field component.
dayterrareact-componentsreactjsmodular
parthivbhagat/shipit
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
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