Rowan Hale
Contribution activity
About
I build interfaces where engineering precision and visual calm meet. For the past eight years I have worked across design systems, component libraries, and the fussy last ten percent of product surfaces that most teams never budget for.
Currently at Meridian Labs, shaping a component registry used by a few thousand developers. Before that I spent years making dashboards legible and forms forgiving. I care about hairlines, tabular numerals, and interfaces that respect reduced-motion preferences.
Stack
- typescript
- react
- next.js
- tailwindcss
- radix
- motion
- node.js
- figma
- rive
Experience
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Meridian Labs
Senior Design Engineer Full-time 2023 - Present
Own the public component registry: API design, docs engine, and the visual language. Shipped the v3 token system and cut style regressions to near zero with visual snapshot gates.
Design Engineer Full-time 2021 - 2023
Built the first shared primitives package and the theming bridge between design tokens and the runtime.
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Fieldnote Systems
Frontend Engineer Full-time 2018 - 2021
Made agricultural sensor dashboards readable in direct sunlight: high-contrast themes, dense tables, offline-first sync.
