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Front-End Engineer bridging the gap between design and development

Front-End Technical Lead at Amazon, building the design system and tooling behind a React app 68,000+ people use every day. Fourteen years turning design into fast, accessible, maintainable code. Now open to full-time front-end and design-systems roles.

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Used by teams at

  • Nike
  • Sony
  • Adidas
  • Microsoft
  • Bose
  • Fossil
Work

Selected projects

About

I’m a Front-End Engineer specializing in design systems

Dave Maynard

I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia with over 14 years of industry experience. I build the systems and tooling that let large teams ship consistent, accessible, fast UI, currently for 1,500+ teams at Amazon.

Years of experience
14+
Projects launched
20+
Marketplaces reached
21+
Daily active users
68,000+
Résumé (PDF)
Career

The work so far

Front-End Technical Lead
Amazon · 2021 — Present
Technical lead for A+ Content Manager, a React app used by 68,000+ daily users publishing to 20M+ products across 21 marketplaces. I drive front-end architecture and developer experience across 20+ repositories and 1,500+ teams. Along the way I’ve unified three design systems into one, cut build times by 65%, and shipped GenAI content tools with 85%+ adoption.
Web Development Engineer
Amazon · 2020 — 2021
Built Career Choice, an internal app personalized for 300,000+ employees across 14 countries and 9 languages, on Salesforce with HTML, JavaScript, Sass, Apex, and Visualforce. This is where I learned the value of localization and accessibility at scale.
Lead Front-End Web Developer
Sagepath Reply · 2017 — 2020
Led a team building responsive, component-based sites for clients including The Home Depot, Georgia Power, and Cracker Barrel. I wrote reusable JavaScript, Sass, and Vue against enterprise CMSes, and helped interview, hire, and mentor our junior engineers.
Front-End Web Developer
SA IT Services · LINDY · Insight Global · 2012 — 2016
Cut my teeth building responsive websites and internal tools with Angular, TypeScript, Sass, jQuery, and WordPress across a series of Atlanta agencies and contracts.
How I work

What I bring

Design systems that scale
Tokens, components, and docs that hold a product together as it grows. I unified three disparate design systems into one, used across 20 repositories and 1,500+ teams.
Accessible from the start
Keyboard support, screen-reader testing, and WCAG compliance are built into the component itself. Proven across 21 marketplaces and 9 languages, where accessibility either scales or breaks.
Performance as a feature
Lean JavaScript, fast builds, Core Web Vitals in the green. I cut one app’s CI build time 65%, from 32 minutes to 13, and its Babel complexity 86%.

Software that looks considered and holds up under load. The interesting work lives in the gap between a design that feels right and code that still feels that way years later. That gap is where I work.

Testimonials

Kind words from people I’ve shipped with

Recommendations from engineers I’ve worked alongside on the front-end team at Amazon.

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As a technical lead, he brings strong front-end expertise and a keen eye for best practices to every project. He is always thinking a step ahead on how to raise the bar for our codebase and streamline team workflows.

Xinran LiSoftware Development Engineer, Amazon

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dave for about a year, and I’ve learned a lot from his front-end engineering skills. As a tech lead, he sets a high bar for development standards and genuinely cares about helping the people around him grow.

Anjali SinghSoftware Development Engineer, Amazon

His passion for frontend engineering is evident in everything he does. As a technical leader, he drives the direction of our frontend architecture, champions best practices, and consistently goes the extra mile to improve the codebase.

Aditi JainSoftware Development Engineer, Amazon
Side Projects

Built on the side

Packages, experiments, and the occasional rabbit hole, built to learn something new or scratch my own itch.

davemaynard.dev2026

This portfolio site, rebuilt in 2026 as a printed monograph where every hero image is a generated, animated schematic.

Orbit2026

Mission control for running several AI-assisted projects in parallel: a local-first dashboard that reads git, vault notes, task files, and Claude Code session logs straight off disk.

Nova2026

A fintech UI kit for React and Tailwind CSS v4: 16 blocks built on the idea that in trading interfaces, the numbers are the interface.

Bring the Pups2026

An SEO editorial site about dog parks, built as the reference implementation of a hands-off content engine: deterministic retrieval, AI curation, and a 12-stage QA gate on every deploy.

paintings.py2020

A desktop program in Python that would take a source image and, using random brush strokes, output a result resembling an expressionist painting.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Front-end engineering with a design-systems focus: component libraries, design-to-code, accessibility and performance work, and the occasional full product or marketing build. If it lives in the browser and quality matters, it’s in scope.

Both. I can take a Figma file to pixel-faithful, accessible code, or start earlier and shape the system, the interactions, and the edge cases alongside the designer.

TypeScript and React, usually with Next.js and Tailwind. But the stack serves the project. The constants are semantics, accessibility, and performance, whatever the framework.

Primarily open to full-time front-end and design-systems roles, with some freelance work depending on fit. The fastest way to find out is a short note about what you’re building.

I treat them as requirements. Keyboard and screen-reader support are part of done, and every build ships against a performance budget with Core Web Vitals tracked.

Still have a question? Email davemaynard24@gmail.com

Contact

Let’s build something

Have a project, a role, or a problem worth solving? I’d love to hear about it.

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or email davemaynard24@gmail.com