Software engineer

Istvan Polacsek

I build typed web systems and design systems. Selected work, writing and a short CV below.

Selected work

Projects

2026
Portfolio UI
A token-driven component library with Storybook, Motion and accessibility tests built in.
- React
- Nx
- Storybook
New
2025
Tunes
A Discord Activity that generates tuning sheets and keeps a per-user library.
- Next.js
- Postgres
2025
Design tokens pipeline
One JSON file generates CSS custom properties, SCSS mixins and docs, with a spec that fails on drift.
- TypeScript
- SCSS

Notes

12 Mar 20268 min read
Why the stretched link beats the wrapper
One link per card keeps the tab order short and the screen reader quiet, without nesting anything.
- Accessibility
- CSS
2 Feb 20266 min read
Generating CSS tokens from one JSON file
A small script, a drift test and what it took to make the docs a build output.
- Design systems
- Tooling

Career

Current role: 2023 – now
Staff engineer · Contoso
Owns the design system and the web platform roadmap for a team of twelve.
- Next.js
- Design systems
2019 – 2023
Senior frontend engineer · Northwind
Led the move to a shared component library and cut page weight by a third.
- React
- Nx
2015 – 2019
Developer · Fabrikam
Built internal tools and a customer portal.
- TypeScript

Get in touch

I am open to staff-level frontend and design-system roles. The quickest way to reach me is email.

Email mehello@example.com