TJ Harrop
Manager - Design Systems at Bupa
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolTJ Harrop is a design systems leader and manager with 11 years of experience building scalable design operations, tooling, and standards across government and enterprise products. Currently managing Design Systems at Bupa in Sydney, he blends hands-on front-end craft (a former coder) with strategic design and product management to improve quality and delivery speed. His career spans founding startups and consulting globally, leading pioneering public-sector work such as NSW’s Rules as Code and a statewide design system that married policy, regulation and engineering. Known for translating ambiguous problems into pragmatic, auditable services, he pairs DesignOps rigor with a creative curiosity—often experimenting with emerging tech and lean launches. Outside of work he’s an over-keen amateur chef, a detail that surfaces in his methodical yet inventive approach to team and system design.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St James High
English
Stackoverflow
214reputation
14kreached
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Github Skills (55)
ux-design10
experiences10
figma9
audience9
css9
controlled9
reward9
patternfly9
frontend8
react8
searchable8
bootstrap7
admin7
renderer7
html6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tjharrop/BA-reward-table
Jul 2015 - Feb 2019
Searchable version of Raffles' table of BA 'reward' flight prices
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
flightpricesrafflesrewardsearchable
digitalnsw/cereal
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
HTML & JS User interface for Openfisca example
Contributions:25 PRs, 38 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
openfiscauser-interfacejavascriptuser-js
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