Alison Joseph
Senior Engineering Manager, Senior Front End Dev - Carbon at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlison Joseph is an Austin-based Senior Engineering Manager and Front End Developer at IBM who leads the Carbon Design System and the ibm.com/design ecosystem, bringing a decade of experience in design systems and UI engineering. She blends a designer’s eye for typography and accessibility — demonstrated by hands-on contributions to IBM Plex and Carbon UI components — with practical React and Gatsby work, including a Carbon-specific Gatsby theme and enhancements to the Carbon website such as a homepage video and pictogram library. Alison coaches cross-functional teams, fosters inclusive engineering cultures, and drives production-ready component improvements that scale across products. An open-source steward, she pairs meticulous front-end craftsmanship with strategic leadership to make design systems usable by both designers and engineers.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Mutlimedia and Web Design, Bachelor of Arts Mutlimedia and Web Design at The Art Institutes
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Github Skills (27)
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Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:423 reviews, 406 commits, 517 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alison primarily focused on updating and refining the user interface of the Carbon website. They addressed issues by removing unnecessary class names, ensuring better alignment with the intended design system. They also implemented new features, such as a homepage video and pictogram library, contributing to improved user experience and content presentation. The user demonstrated experience in front-end technologies such as React.js.
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carbon-design-system/gatsby-theme-carbon
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
A Carbon inspired Gatsby theme
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 76 reviews, 233 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alison primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Gatsby theme. Their work focused on adding and updating components, such as the DoDontExample, including their styling and functionality. They also made adjustments to existing components to integrate with the Carbon Design System and improve overall layout and user experience. Further improvements were made to the ImageCard component, and also made additions to the Video component.
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