Sam Acuña
Senior Staff Design Engineer at Visa
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSam Acuña is a Senior Staff Design Engineer in Austin with 12 years of experience blending front-end engineering, design systems, and AI-driven tooling. At Visa he has led the evolution of the Visa Product Design System—building theming, CSS libraries, multi-framework component tooling, and most recently architecting an AI Enablement Platform that integrates vector search and multiple models to generate context-aware design and code. He pairs a rare academic mix of computer science, philosophy and linguistics with hands-on backend and frontend skills (Express, Python, MongoDB, React, Angular, Flutter) to solve both technical and human-centered workflow problems. A team-oriented leader and manager, he focuses on accessibility, developer experience, and automating repetitive design tasks to accelerate creativity. Outside of work he’s equally at home with travel, soccer, and guitar—hinting at a pragmatic creativity that informs his approach to design and systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinAssociate’s Degree Philosophy Art History, Associate’s Degree Philosophy Art History at Cedar Valley College
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (36)
fonts10
css10
logos10
branding10
font-awesome10
svg-font10
woff10
iconic10
google-fonts10
gulp-plugin9
gulp9
svg9
hook7
axe7
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samueleishion/logr-js
Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
samueleishion/samuelacuna
Jan 2017 - Apr 2023
Repo for my website
Contributions:18 PRs, 44 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 4 months
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