Fortinet Oct 2022 – Present
Senior UI/UX Designer, Design Systems
Design System
- Founded a 0→1 headless design system architecture for 10+ existing products and ~3 new product rollouts annually; engineered an in-house component playground and documentation portal from scratch to bypass strict corporate cybersecurity restrictions on external vendor tools like Storybook.
- Architected a three-tier token structure for 50+ UI components, leading a strategic system refactor to optimize token density and eliminate over-abstraction, streamlining the production workflow to cut dev time by ~40%.
- Authored AI agent skills for the CI/CD pipeline to automate scalable governance, handling axe/Playwright accessibility audits, component-API validation, and automated changeset releases.
- Accelerated system adoption to 100% across the VP's org via team-specific roadmapping, open office hours, and structured lifecycle governance for component deprecations and releases.
Product Design
- Served as sole designer for FortiAIGate (AI security built with NVIDIA), architecting a modular, composable configuration model that accelerated enterprise guardrail setup by 50%, replacing rigid linear flows to allow fast pivots as AI landscape requirements evolved.
- Redesigned the analytics architecture to move beyond misleading token-volume metrics, establishing a role-scoped data layer that translates raw AI traffic into contextual evidence for enterprise risk, spend, and operational auditing.
- Utilized Claude and Figma Make to generate interactive, almost production-ready prototypes, compressing design-to-engineering feedback loops by 60% and eliminating alignment friction on complex responsive states.