Tigran Yeremyan

Senior Design Engineer with 9 years of experience building polished, production-quality product UI in code, with a strong eye for design and interaction.

Senior Design Engineer (Consultant, part-time) – Independent (June 2026 – present)

Design and build a website and AI chat app end to end for an early-stage startup's EU launch, owning both the UI/UX decisions and the code. Took both to European Accessibility Act readiness (WCAG 2.1 AA legal bar, built to 2.2 AA) with automated a11y gates (Playwright, axe-core, VoiceOver), fixed 80 defects across 36 shared UI components and built 500+ technical-SEO tests gating deploys.

Senior Design Engineer – Podcastle AI, now Async (2024 – 2026)

Owned frontend architecture for the website rebrand: design tokens, atomic classes and page templates, shipped across 500+ pages on a system that doubled delivery speed. Architected the Webflow–React split with tokens synced automatically into React, so the team shipped pages without an engineer in the loop. Rebuilt the editor demo's transformer as hardware-accelerated HTML/CSS.

Senior Design Engineer I→II – Picsart (2021 – 2024)

Co-founded Picsart's web design system and scaled it to production across 60 engineers and 10 repositories. Teams still build on it today. Owned the versioning, theming and token architecture: replaced a per-component semantic-versioning model (which caused version sprawl) with a single version per component, and coordinated the migrations. Drove adoption across all 10 web product teams, cutting UI inconsistencies and duplicate components for products serving millions. Principal technical interviewer for Design Engineering hires.

Earlier on the Web Photo Editor Core Team: led UI engineering in a 30-person cross-functional team and drove frontend for the company-wide editor redesign. Cut component render time by ~30%, built a z-index dependency system that eliminated layering conflicts, and mentored 5 engineers in CSS architecture.

Junior → Senior UI Engineer – Renderforest (2017 – 2020)

Built landing pages scoring 97+ in every Lighthouse category and the UI for browser-based Video, Logo and Graphic editors.

Public work: CodePen featured on the homepage twice, including a self-animating color-token system (@property, :has(), OKLCH, zero JavaScript) and corner-shape morphing on scroll.

Skills: React, TypeScript, Next.js, modern CSS, design tokens, Storybook, Framer Motion, GSAP, Webflow, WCAG 2.2, a11y automation, technical SEO. AI-first daily with Claude Code.

Based in Yerevan, Armenia (UTC+4, EU/UK overlap). Remote, contract/B2B or EOR, available immediately.