Kengo Ikeda-Iyeki

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.

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.

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2014–2017

Android & Product Engineer

Built features across web and Android spanning the post editor, reblog experience, and profile discovery.

Design Engineering, Product Design

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.

Design Engineering, Product Design

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.

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