Stephanie Friend
Senior Engineering Manager, Design Systems at Etsy
Bend, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolStephanie Friend is a senior engineering manager specializing in design systems and accessibility with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end platforms for consumer and internal products. Currently leading Etsy’s Design Systems team, she’s scaling a component library across multiple applications while driving a transition from audit-driven accessibility to embedded, product-team support. Previously she scaled video and community engineering at Reddit—launching live streaming and immersive video experiences—and earlier roles show a consistent track record of growth-focused front-end engineering and product experimentation. Based in Bend, Oregon, she combines a fine arts background with technical leadership, hiring and promoting engineers rapidly and coaching designers into management. Her work reflects a blend of UX sensibility and pragmatic engineering that accelerates adoption across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies, With Honors, Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies, With Honors at California Polytechnic State UniversityFine Arts, Fine Arts at The Marchutz School of Fine Arts
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Github Skills (1)
web-components6
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Github contributions (5)
sffriend/gh-pages
Jan 2016 - May 2023
Experimenting with Github Pages.
Contributions:3 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 5 months
experimenting
sffriend/todo
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
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