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Fatima Al-Rashid
Frontend Lead Engineer — Design Systems
fatima.alrashid@email.com +61 412 345 678 Sydney, Australia linkedin.com/in/fatimaalrashid github.com/fatima-frontend
Professional Summary

Frontend lead with 7 years of experience, specialising in design systems, component architecture, and web performance. At Canva, architected and shipped the company's design-token system now used by 40 engineers across 6 product squads, eliminating 200+ hardcoded style values and reducing UI inconsistencies by 85%. Passionate about accessible, performant UI at scale — Core Web Vitals advocate and regular speaker at frontend conferences across APAC.

Key Contributions at Canva
40 Engineers using design-token system
200+ Hardcoded style values replaced
85% Reduction in UI inconsistencies
34 → 92 Lighthouse perf score improvement
Tech Stack
React TypeScript Storybook Chromatic Style Dictionary CSS-in-JS (Emotion) Vite Vitest Playwright Lighthouse CI Figma API Node.js
Experience
Frontend Lead — Design Systems Mar 2022 – Present
Canva, Sydney
  • Designed and shipped Canva's design-token pipeline: Figma variables → Style Dictionary → generated TypeScript + CSS custom properties — adopted by 40 engineers across 6 squads within 3 months.
  • Built and maintain the Canva component library (60+ components) in React/TypeScript with Storybook; visual regression testing via Chromatic catches UI regressions pre-merge.
  • Led a 4-month web performance initiative: audited, refactored, and lazy-loaded critical editor path — Lighthouse performance score improved from 34 to 92; LCP down 2.8s.
  • Introduced Playwright visual and a11y test suite; caught 34 accessibility regressions in first quarter of operation.
  • Mentored 3 mid-level frontend engineers; 1 promoted to senior in 14 months.
Senior Frontend Engineer Aug 2019 – Feb 2022
Atlassian, Sydney
  • Contributed to Atlassian Design System (ADS); owned the Form and Date Picker component packages — 12M weekly impressions across Jira, Confluence, and Trello.
  • Migrated legacy CSS modules to Emotion (CSS-in-JS) across 3 product surfaces with zero visual regression, verified by Chromatic snapshot suite.
  • Defined ADR for responsive grid system adopted by 4 cross-functional teams; reduced layout-related bugs by 41% over 2 quarters.
Frontend Developer Jan 2018 – Jul 2019
Deputy, Sydney
  • Rebuilt the workforce scheduling UI in React from a jQuery legacy codebase — load time reduced from 8s to 1.4s; bounce rate dropped 22%.
  • Introduced component-driven development and Storybook to the frontend team; onboarding time for new devs cut from 2 weeks to 4 days.
Education
BSc Computer Science & Software Engineering Feb 2014 – Nov 2017
University of Melbourne — Honours First Class; Dean's Award for Academic Excellence
Talks & Community

JSConf AU 2025 — "Design Tokens at Scale: From Figma to Production" · CSSDay Sydney 2024 — "Core Web Vitals That Actually Matter" · Open-source maintainer: react-token-provider (1.2k GitHub stars) · WCAG 2.2 working group contributor