Samuel Acuna
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorSam 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
Github Skills (20)
css10
svg10
static-page9
gulp-plugin9
python7
gulp6
pre-commit-hook5
command-line-interface5
testing5
accessibility4
nodejs4
tag-cloud4
d3-cloud3
react2
ava2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samueleishion/samuelacuna
Jan 2017 - Jan 2026
Repo for my website
Contributions:4 reviews, 18 PRs, 52 pushes in 9 years 1 month
samueleishion/gulp-axe-cli
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Gulp plugin to test static pages with aXe as pre-commit hook or in CI environment.
Contributions:77 commits, 21 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 9 months
gulp-pluginpre-commit-hookstatic-page
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