Arnie Sandoval
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Arnie Sandoval

Design Technology Leader in San Francisco Bay Area, he/him

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2 years ago

About

Design technologist with over 15 years of experience in development and leadership roles, specializing in building design systems from scratch and product development. Passionate about fostering a healthy work culture that enables multidisciplinary collaboration and delivering high-quality user experiences that are accessible to all people.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
San Francisco, CA

• Transformed our design system into a complete UI toolchain called Skeleton, by providing vision, strategy and systems thinking mentorship to the team, ultimately improving our time to market for new products by approximately 90% (36 weeks → 4 weeks).
• Led the delivery of Objectives and Key Results that moved NBA TopShot's Pack NFTs onto the Flow Blockchain.
• Oversaw design and engineering of a new multi-tenant application for Global Football Products (LaLiga Golazos and English Premier League) using the Skeleton Toolchain. The app enables a single team to maintain multiple client intellectual properties simultaneously, resulting in a 50% cost reduction.

2022 — 2022
San Francisco, CA

• Successfully pitched a design system through the creation and socialization of a proof of concept which set out to prove that we could accelerate time to market through the creation of a Design System.
• Founded, architected and built the Skeleton Design System, a themeable and composable set of toolkits for multi-tenant applications within Dapper Labs Sports Studio.
• Managed external design and software development contractors tasked with contributing to the Skeleton Design System.
• Contributed to the launch of NFL ALL DAY’s Secondary Marketplace through the development of features.

2020 — 2022
San Francisco, CA

• Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Workflows and led visual regression testing vendor audit efforts.
• Authored the Odyssey Product Roadmap and led Odyssey office hours for knowledge sharing.
• Rebuilt the Odyssey documentation website using Vue and proposed consistent content models for component pages.
• Socialized accessibility best practices and authored a11y guides.
• Developed proof of concepts on Web Components, Design Tokens, and Theming Architecture.

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