Helen V. Holmes
Design Engineer
helenvholmes.com
sayhi@helenvholmes.com

I’m a design engineer based in Philadelphia with a focus in building UI for web apps. Over my career I’ve worked with different companies to create design systems, bridging the gap between design and engineering to ensure best-in-class user experience and front-end infrastructure.

I'm currently looking for my next position. If you think I'd be a good fit for your company, please reach out at sayhi@helenvholmes.com.

Selected Projects
AI Mapping UI, Transfer 2024
Built out the AI Mapping UI tool for Modern Treasury's reconciliation engine, which allowed users to visualize and connect data columns in their own software against MT's. Unveiled at Transfer 2024.

Engineering Colleague: Mafaz Chaudhry
Designer: Alden Spence
2024

ModernTreasury.com Redesign
Built out the redesign for ModernTreasury.com in a quarter with a hard deadline for the yearly Transfer conference. Built with NextJS, Sanity, Tailwind, and TypeScript, and was completely self-serve for the content team upon finish.

Tech Lead: Jason Barone
Designers: Frank Chimero, Ryan Essmaker
2023

Experience
Staff Design Engineer,
Modern Treasury
Maintained the design system, built app UI, and redesigned the marketing website for Modern Treasury, a company modernizing money movement.
2022—2024
Senior Design Engineer,
New York Public Library
Built the NYPL design system as a package to power dozens of apps. Evangelized the system internally.
2019—2021
Product Designer,
Self-Employed
Worked with clients such as Fastly and Github to code microsites, produce five conferences, and design an app.
2017—2019
Senior UX Designer,
Developer Tools, Mozilla Firefox
Designed in close collaboration with the developers to build out better user experiences on Firefox’s Developer Tools.
2015—2016
Front End Developer
Capital One
Built out web, iOS, and IoT prototypes for the design team for experiences that needed more than Invision.
2014—2015
Education
The New School
Coursework, animation & interior design
2018
American University
Graphic design (major), French (minor)
2009—2013
The Corcoran
Coursework, drawing, painting, & pottery
2009—2013
University of Virginia
Coursework, Russian language studies
2008
Capabilities
Technologies
Typescript, React, JavaScript, GraphQL, CSS, Tailwind, HTML
Disciplines
UI/UX design, Animation, Graphic design