About Me

I’m a multi-disciplinary designer focusing on the intersection of design and development—specifically Design Systems and how teams work together to build amazing products.

I specialize in building modular, scalable UI frameworks and empowering teams with systems thinking, clean implementation, and accessibility best practices. I’m looking for a creative position that offers challenges, collaboration, and an opportunity to work on products that positively impact the world.

Technologies

• Languages & Web: HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Frameworks & Libraries: React, Vue, Blazor, SwiftUI
• Design Systems: Constellation, Forge, Storybook, Design Tokens
• Tooling: Git, CI/CD, Lighthouse, accessibility testing tools
• Design & Content: Figma, Contentful, Jekyll, Shopify, Wordpress

Experience

Zillow

Senior Software Development Engineer (Level P4)
Jan 2025–Present • Remote

• As of June 2025, transitioned to the Design Foundations team, responsible for Zillow’s centralized design system, Constellation. Focused on building scalable, accessible, and performant UI solutions that empower product teams across Zillow Group.
• Contributed to design system architecture, adoption tooling, accessibility standards, and performance optimizations that impact millions of users and dozens of teams.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to advance web performance, developer experience, and front-end quality across platforms.
• Previously supported the Follow Up Boss product team within Zillow post-acquisition, leading enhancements to the Forge design system and helping align product development with Zillow's design principles and quality standards.

Software Development Engineer (Level P3)
Jan 2024–Jan 2025 • Remote

• Continued work on the Follow Up Boss product inside Zillow after the December 2023 acquisition.
• Led efforts to modernize and scale Forge, streamlining design-developer workflows and maintaining high standards for accessibility and usability.
• Collaborated with product and engineering teams to integrate Forge into feature work, improve developer velocity, and ensure consistency in UX delivery.

Front-End Engineer – Follow Up Boss (Acquired by Zillow)
Jun 2022–Dec 2023 • Remote

• Designed and implemented the Forge design system from the ground up, enabling a shared language between design and engineering.
• Built and maintained core UI libraries and documentation to improve product velocity and consistency.
• Acted as a bridge between product, design, and engineering—helping to scale the front-end team’s capabilities ahead of Zillow’s acquisition.

Education Advanced, Inc.

Lead UI/UX Developer
2017–2022 • Remote

• Directed the user experience and interface design across multiple SaaS products, aligning design decisions with business goals and product strategy.
• Developed and scaled a unified design system supporting multiple applications, complete with detailed documentation to drive adoption and consistency.
• Delivered high-fidelity prototypes and interactive demos to validate design ideas and facilitate stakeholder alignment.
• Collaborated across engineering, product, and leadership to continuously evolve the UI architecture and component library.
• Contributed front-end code for production features using modern JavaScript frameworks.

OTTO Health

Designer & Front-End Developer
2017 • Remote

• Rebuilt the company’s core design system to support a complete product overhaul.
• Improved overall application consistency by aligning UI patterns and reducing visual and functional debt.
• Developed custom React components and layouts, delivering a modular front-end foundation used across the application.
• Worked closely with engineering to refine and implement design specs using CSS and semantic HTML.

Kontur Labs

Creative Director & Front-End Developer
2013–2017 • Maui, HI

• Led creative direction and design execution across web and mobile projects, from pitch through launch.
• Collaborated on UI/UX strategy and translated concepts into functional designs and production-ready code.
• Consulted on semantic, scalable front-end architectures for enterprise SaaS products.
• Oversaw project delivery pipelines and guided junior developers and designers through implementation and refinement.

Kaiser Permanente

Graphic Designer
2009–2013 • Portland, OR

• Produced national- and regional-level visual materials while maintaining brand consistency across campaigns.
• Managed print production workflows including pre-press file preparation, plate ordering, and press approvals.
• Created assets ranging from patient materials to promotional posters, working across internal departments and vendors.

Education Northwest

Graphic Designer
2007–2009 • Portland, OR

• Designed print and digital materials for federally funded education programs and policy rollouts.
• Built templates and processes to standardize visual output across education departments.
• Managed all creative assets and served as primary point of contact for external production vendors.

Core Principles

• I’m a thorough thinker who approaches design challenges holistically—I build solutions from beginning to end with extensibility and modularity in mind.
• I care deeply about how something works as much as its outward appearance—I love to tinker and am always looking to improve, optimize and scale my ideas.
• I’m a lifelong learner who’s always looking to reposition my opinions to reflect new information and become a well-informed, kinder human.
• When I work with others it’s about listening and sharing in the creation of new ideas—the things we make together are always better when we collaborate.

Education

Pacific University

Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design & Video Production
2007 • Forest Grove, OR

Recommendations

As a designer at Kontur Labs, and also as a contract designer for hire, Jared demonstrated a consistent ability to design creative and purpose driven experiences. Initially, he was hired as a visual designer but we soon discovered he is actually a hybrid of UX, visual design and front end dev.

When working within the constraints of an agency contract, there isn’t often budget for usability testing and extensive customer discovery. Jared was able compensate by leveraging best practices and low budget user testing to make sure his designs were accomplishing the desired goals.

His ability to “design with code” allowed us to pick up considerable speed in the “design to HTML” creation phases of our projects. We were able to remove hours spent wire framing and working with a visual designer and go right form IA, content curation/gathering and sketches into HTML and CSS.

This resulted in a boost in profitability of our agency contracts. Furthermore, he would test his HTML/CSS for browser compatibility before handing off to engineering. This allowed us to spend less time on quality assurance.

Jared is also a change agent. He is constantly expanding his skill sets and encouraged us to use new tools and explore new ways of working together that were more collaborative—not just as a team but with our clients. He is a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend him as an addition to any agency or product team.

Jared is an exceptional worker and person. I felt very lucky to have the chance to work with him while at Kontur Labs. He is honest, knowledgable and delivers quality results. Everything he does is done with integrity as he cares about the work he puts out into the world. He has a great sense of humor and is a great team player. Our office called him the unicorn as he is the unique combination of designer and coder.

I would highly recommend Jared to anyone looking for an art director, designer or developer.

I hired Jared to design the Playbill for our big summer show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in addition to a variety of advertisements, both print and digital, and other marketing material. Jared did a superb job and delivered all the materials well ahead of his deadlines. He made it all look easy. Prior to this, Jared and I were co-workers at Kontur Labs for two years, where he demonstrated the same level of professionalism, talent and expertise. He is one of the few designers I’ve met who also understands programming and the world of code.

I continue to collaborate with Jared as projects come up. I recommend him highly for any endeavor that requires a talented and well trained designer.