Roman Ismagilov — Design Systems Lead

( About me )

Design systems fail when they outgrow their teams. I help them mature alongside their users into systems that scale.

Socio-technical systems

A design system is the technical artifact AND the team practices around it. Get one right without the other and the system fails. I work both layers at once.

Migration at scale

Most enterprise systems weren't built for the scale they're now serving. The work isn't starting over — it's migrating what exists to what's needed, without breaking adoption.

Governance over docs

Documentation is necessary but insufficient. The contribution model, the intake workflow, the deprecation discipline — these are what actually keep a system useful at scale.

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