Mina Markham

@minamarkham
I make things on the internet
Oakland, CA
she/her/hers

Design Systems

Software Engineering

Speaker

Product Design

Open Source

Event Emcee

Gif Enthusiast

UX Design

Visual Design

Writer

ADHD

Mentor

Professional

Teacher

Lecturer

Networker

Traveler

Web Developer

Writer Contributor

Conference Attendee

Podcast Guest

Life Long Learner

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Coding

WordPress

Front-end Developer

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UI Design

Early Adopter

Conference Organizer

JavaScript

Remote Worker

React

GitHub

Software Engineer

CSS

No Code

Designer

Documentation

Self-Taught

University Graduate

Technical Writer

Mina Markham is a Staff Engineer at Slack. She’s a lover of design systems and prolific public speaker, appearing at events worldwide, including An Event Apart, CSS Dev Conf, Fluent, and Smashing Conference.

Previously at Hillary for America, her work on the Pantsuit pattern library has been spotlighted in WIRED, Forbes, Fast Company, and Communication Arts. She lives in Oakland, California.

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I'm open to

guest lecturing,

making introductions,

advising companies,

speaking at events,

joining company boards,

speaking on podcasts,

speaking on twitter spaces,

and speaking on clubhouse.

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Resume

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Aug 2019 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, Slack

Sep 2018 - Present

Co-Organizer, Design Systems Coalition

Mar 2017 - Aug 2019

Senior Software Engineer, Slack

Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

Senior Engineer, Hillary for America

Portfolio

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Revamping my website I want to add a fresh look to my personal website and add more detail about myself and my work.

Started learning front-end.

Offscreen Magazine: Issue № 12 Toolbox — Front-end engineer Mina Markham shows us her set of tools to get stuff done.

Featured on Insights, a column on Communication Arts.

💻 Open Source

I released Sassy Starter, a SCSS boilerplate. Sassy Starter is a starter toolkit based on Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS (SMACSS) and Atomic Design for Sass (SCSS) projects. Styles are b...

I released Formation, a laptop setup script. Formation is a shell script to set up a macOS laptop for design and development. It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It installs, u...

I released Yoncé, Queen Bey-inspired themes for all your favs. Yoncé is a color scheme for code editors, terminal emulators and apps such as Alfred, Hyper, iTerm, VSCode, Terminal.app, Bash-it, and...

📰 Press & Mentions

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https://hackernoon.com/200-black-women-in-tech-to-follow-on-twitter-2020-list-1uck31a9

I was listed in Builder.ai’s article, 52 Must-Follow #WomenInTech on Twitter.

Got a really nice shoutout from Michael Bierut regarding Pantsuit on Episode 41: Memory Loss on The Observatory by Design Observer (starting at minute 21:43).

The Key to Clinton’s Identity Online? It’s Pantsuit

🎟 Events

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Baby's first conference! http://frontenddesignconference.com/2011.html

An Event Apart: Online Together Online — June 15, 2020 The Mythology of Design Systems Drawing on her experiences building design systems at two highly visible and vastly different organizations, M...

I hosted the San Francisco Design Systems Coalition at Slack's headquarters in San Francisco.

Write/Speak/Code New York, USA — August 8, 2018 Opening Keynote Summary thread: https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1024654340265521152 Not so humble brag: https://twitter.com/MinaMarkham/status/...

✍🏾 Articles

I wrote an article on Slack's Engineering blog about how we redesigned and rebuilt slack.com.

I wrote an article on 24 Ways, the advent calendar for web geeks, about how to refactor your way to a design system.

Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI pattern library