Taylor Jones
Senior Front End Engineering Lead - Carbon Design System at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Jones is a Senior Front End Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience building user-centered web interfaces and leading the Carbon Design System at IBM from both hands-on and advisory angles. Based in Austin, he combines deep React and SCSS expertise with a strong accessibility and keyboard-navigation focus, having improved core UI components like data tables, modals, and forms. He’s an active open-source contributor to high-profile repos such as carbon-design-system and the IBM Plex font, where he’s shipped features, refactors, dependency updates, and cross-browser font support. Known for bridging design and engineering, Taylor frequently coordinates designers, researchers, and backend teams to translate user research into practical, maintainable front-end architecture. A pragmatic leader, he still contributes code—small but impactful changes like adding “Edit this page on GitHub” links—showing attention to developer experience as well as end-user UX.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Interactive Digital Media: Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Interactive Digital Media: Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State University
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Github Skills (30)
accessibility10
javascript10
fonts10
github10
ui-components10
css10
carbon-copy10
sc10
mdx10
carbon-lang10
font-face10
scs10
front-end-development10
gatsby10
react10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:390 reviews, 88 commits, 141 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the website's front-end components, including updates to the color tokens for the Carbon Design System. Their work involved modifying various components, particularly around icons and homepage elements, by updating file paths, banner images, and codebase for new versions. Moreover, the user improved the website's codebase, enhancing functionalities and accessibility.
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carbon-design-system/carbon
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2725 reviews, 341 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of UI components within the Carbon Design System, focusing on React and SCSS. Their work involved fixing bugs, refactoring existing code, and adding new features to various components such as data tables, modals, tooltips, tabs, and form elements. They also contributed to improving accessibility and keyboard navigation within the UI library.
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