Founder & Principal Consultant
Cassondra is an invited expert to the W3C CSS Working Group and a design systems engineer with over a decade of experience building enterprise-scale front-end infrastructure. She co-founded PatternFly Elements at Red Hat (adopted by Google, IBM, and Fidelity) and served as Staff Design Engineer on Adobe's Spectrum Design System, where she led the AI Working Group and pioneered workflows that reduced planning overhead by more than 25%.
As an open source leader and conference speaker, Cassondra specializes in the critical space between design and engineering—translating vision into production-ready, accessible code. She contributes to web standards that shape how we build interfaces and brings both cutting-edge technical knowledge and proven enterprise patterns to every project.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Launched consulting practice focused on helping teams build scalable front-end infrastructure and design systems that accelerate product development.
Staff Design Engineer, Spectrum Design System
Led frontend architecture & AI integration for Adobe's design system, serving flagship products (Photoshop, Illustrator) used by millions. Drove technical decisions that enabled teams to ship features faster while maintaining quality & consistency.
Senior Web Components Developer, Digital Imaging, Photoshop
Led Unified Experience Components initiative, building accessible, WCAG AA-compliant web components for Adobe's flagship products while driving cross-team alignment on shared UX patterns.
Principal Front-end Architect, User Experience Team, Digital Marketing
Led open source community strategy for PatternFly Elements, driving cross-organizational adoption and web component standards engagement.
Senior Front-end Architect, Digital Marketing Strategy & Design
Co-founded PatternFly Elements and served as technical lead for the redhat.com pattern library, establishing front-end standards and mentoring a team of developers.
Front-end Developer, UX Development Tech Lead
Architected a component-driven design system and established front-end JavaScript standards for the Red Hat web team.
User Experience Web Developer/Designer
Front-end developer and content manager for redhat.com, leading a team migration to git and delivering microsites for products and major events.
Jr Web Developer
Junior front-end developer in a CakePHP/PHP5 environment, contributing to feature development and environment configuration.
Associate Technical Consultant
Customer-facing technical consultant for SAS analytics software, specializing in database optimization and enterprise analytics implementations.
Associate Development Tester
QA engineer for SAS in-database products, writing and maintaining a large suite of regression tests across enterprise database platforms.
R&D Technical Student, In-Database Products
Student researcher building automated reporting and testing tooling for the in-database products R&D team.
Computer Science Tutor
Peer tutor supporting computer science students with technical problem-solving and programming concepts.
Web Content Manager
Managed online store content and tooling for a specialty sports retailer.
Journals Production Editor
Production editor managing scheduling, budgets, and cross-departmental coordination for academic journal publication.
Recent projects
Voices
“A walking encyclopedia on CSS, HTML, design systems, & accessibility. One of the best Design Engineers in the business.”
“Every project Cassondra contributes to will be invariably better — through her collaborative energy, her passion for elegant solutions, & her immense knowledge of inclusive design systems.”
“Charting new territory with CSS custom properties, theming, & contextually aware components — making this work at the enterprise level is no small feat.”
“She excels at thinking about the big picture & future requirements to ensure that the codebase will grow with the new challenges we need to face.”
Speaking
Writing
Every project starts with the same tedious ritual — copy .env.example, track down the values, paste them in. In a monorepo, that ritual scales badly. Here's a tool I built to eliminate it entirely.
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