Kengo Ikeda-Iyeki
Design Engineer
10+ years of experience building interfaces for creative platforms, balancing design with engineering, and am seeking a role where both disciplines are valued equally.
Experience
Full-Stack Engineer
Built digital products as part of a small in-house team responsible for the entire digital presence of one of the world's most visited museums. Notable projects include:
- Triple Migration (2025): contributed to a parallel triple migration - Golang to Next.js, Rails to Sanity Headless CMS, and an legacy CSS utility to Tailwind CSS. Led the design system translation.
- General Admission Ticketing (2023): built frontend for new general admission ticketing flow, replaced a third-party system with an experience built in-house and cut average checkout time by more than half.
- MoMA Expansion Rebrand (2019): translated new visual identity into flexible components and color systems for the museum's 2019 expansion and reopening.
Android & Product Engineer
Built features across web and Android spanning the post editor, reblog experience, and profile discovery.
Projects
Identified an opportunity in Bandcamp's social infrastructure and its usefulness for discovery. Explored and rejected alternatives before landing on In Rotation — a curated shelf that travels with your profile.
Independently audited and migrated MoMA's legacy CSS utility into a portable Tailwind configuration, formalizing undocumented design logic to establish a brand-new, composable component library.
Skills
Design
- Figma
- UI, UX, iA
- Prototyping
- Design Systems
- User Testing
- Accessibility
Engineering
- HTML / Semantic CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- React / TypeScript
- Sanity Headless CMS
- Next.js
- Claude Code
Soft
- Collaborative
- Self-directed
- Critical thinker
- Organised
- Analytical
- Introspective