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Ryan Menner

@rmenner

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Design systems engineer specializing in accessible, framework-agnostic component libraries.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building and scaling accessible, framework-agnostic design systems with strong DX, automated CI/CD, mentorship opportunities, and collaborative product teams.

I am a design systems engineer with 10+ years building and scaling component libraries for enterprise applications, focused on accessibility and developer experience.

I've maintained Alaska Airlines' Auro Design System and previously built design systems at E*TRADE, creating framework-agnostic web components, design tokens, and CI/CD pipelines.

I've automated releases and deployment workflows (reducing release cycles by up to 80%), integrated Storybook with custom element manifests, and built tools that let non-technical stakeholders prototype components easily.

I enjoy mentoring engineers, improving onboarding and documentation, and applying design-driven development to deliver consistent, performant user experiences across teams and products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Alaska Air

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Contributed to the Auro Design System, improving build tools and deployment to streamline developer experience and reduce release cycle time by 80% across 20+ component repositories. Integrated Storybook with custom element manifest to automate controls and laid groundwork for React and Svelte wrappers.

Web Components LIT Design Tokens Storybook GitHub Actions CI CD Auro Cli

UI Engineer

E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley

Mar 2022 - Oct 2024 (2 years 7 months)

Developed an accessible, framework-agnostic design system for data-dense UIs and built tooling that reduced component release time from a day to under 3 hours and documentation compile time from 20 to 5 minutes. Created a CodePen-style editor enabling non-technical users to prototype components.

Web Components Stencil Design Tokens Storybook React GitHub Actions CI CD Vite

Frontend Developer

Trevetts/Creative+

Feb 2019 - Mar 2022 (3 years 1 month)

Established development workflows and automated deployments using Forge/Vapor to cloud providers, built responsive front-end experiences, and managed server environments and development pipelines to improve team productivity.