8+ years of experience across frontend engineering, design systems, and product design for top commerce and outdoor education organizations.
My experience solving problems at the intersection of design and development gives me a unique ability to bridge both disciplines—enabling stronger collaboration between designers and engineers, accelerating product development, and improving user interface code quality.
In recent years, I’ve focused on building and evolving design systems for mission-driven organizations, creating the foundations that support consistent, accessible, and efficient product development at scale.
I’m passionate about using design and code to help socially responsible companies tackle complex, real-world problems.
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These are some of the projects I'm most proud of that demonstrate my skills in frontend engineering, design systems, and product design.
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Shopify
Overhauling a global commerce company’s design system tokens to better support a new design language, maintainable styling workflows, and dynamic theming.
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Shopify
Consolidating a global commerce company’s design system breakpoints to several standardized options, improving layout consistency and developer efficiency.
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Reimagining course discovery for a global wilderness school to improve usability and conversion rates for program enrollment.
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Former colleagues, managers, and stakeholders say I have a knack for bridging design and engineering, driving complex systems work, and uplifting team culture.
Chloe Rice
Senior Frontend Engineer, Shopify
“[Laura] bridges the gap between UX and Engineering with ease.... She played a central role in re-architecting the design token system. That work [spanned] the four largest major versions in Polaris history.... Laura cultivates a rich team and project culture. She celebrates wins, removes friction for others... and makes even the most toilsome tasks fun and memorable.”
Alex Page
Engineering Manager, Shopify
“Laura is an exceptional front-end developer responsible for multiple complex design transitions at Shopify. She ensured big design lifts happened smoothly and collaboratively across organizations and disciplines... Her energy and enthusiasm multiplied across the team and often in some of the most challenging or repetitive work she was able to stay optimistic and ensure others felt the same way.”
Joe Thomas
Staff Product Designer, Shopify
“[W]e worked on a number of projects like building a new token architecture, a new migration platform and general component updates... Her ability to communicate, collaborate and keep a team organized and in sync was truly remarkable.... Even in moments of debate and friction within the team as we navigated complex problems, Laura always remained humble and clear minded.”