Xiangjun Trofimov
Design System Lead at Airwallex
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolXiangjun Trofimov is a Design System Lead based in Singapore with a decade of experience building scalable, production-ready design systems and motion-driven UI. Currently leading the Design Systems team at Airwallex, they previously guided Carbon Design System efforts at IBM, shipping themes, tokens, and reusable chart components across massive, globally distributed sites like IBM.com. Their background blends hands-on front-end contributions—such as theming work in IBM’s widely used Carbon repo—with deep design research and motion/AR‑VR expertise from earlier roles and academic work. Comfortable bridging product, engineering, and visual storytelling, they translate complex editorial and application needs into coherent system decisions. Notably, their contributions to theme tokens and interactive states in Carbon reflect both technical fluency and a systems-level understanding of scalable design language.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Brown UniversityBFA Film/Animation/Video, BFA Film/Animation/Video at Rhode Island School of DesignHwa Chong InstitutionMFA Media Design Practices, MFA Media Design Practices at ArtCenter College of DesignEnglish Psychology History, English Psychology History at Goldsmiths, University of London
Chinese, English, Russian
Github Skills (10)
bootstrap-theme10
wp-theme10
javascript10
scs10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
wordpress-themes10
react10
sc10
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 20 commits, 48 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Xiangjun primarily contributed to the theming system within the Carbon Design System repository. Their work involved adding, modifying, and reordering theme tokens, including interactive states and skeleton tokens. The contributions focused on adjusting color values and implementing new design tokens. The commits show an understanding of the design system's architecture and how themes are structured.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
shixiedesign/carbon-website
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
carbonreactdesign-systemcarbon-design-system
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