Mark Anthony Cianfrani

Design engineer with 11+ years of experience building frontend systems, design systems, and AI-native workflows that tighten the loop between design and code. I bring over 6 years of experience having led the technical implementation of the Astro UX Design System, the design system that serves all of Space Force. In a world where ideas now cost nothing to implement, the details have never been more important.

Work Experience

Kin Insurance

Senior Software Engineer, AI and Frontend Systems

2024-08-01 - Current

Built a novel Claude-to-Figma workflow that let LLMs directly manipulate Figma designs, creating a practical bridge between AI-generated code and design artifacts and making it possible to migrate a design system largely single-handedly.
Piloted and scaled A Pattern Language, backed by a pattern-mining workflow that continuously extracted reusable design skills from Figma comment threads, turning buried design debate into a scalable pattern language for designers, engineers, and AI systems.
Built a Figma-to-GitHub design token pipeline that enabled designer-authored PRs, reduced design-to-code handoff friction, and turned design decisions into a shippable frontend contract.
Architected, advocated, and executed an organization-wide MCP Hub to incubate internal innovation and workflows. Ask me about the pain that is MCP OAuth and DCR

Rocket Communications, Inc.

Senior Full Stack Developer

2021-11-01 - 2024-08-01

Led the strategy for the Astro UX Design System web component library, setting the direction for component APIs, framework wrappers, release management, and developer adoption.
Scaled Astro UXDS web components to 6,946 weekly and 33,496 monthly npm downloads.
Led the cross-functional design token strategy across engineering, design, and product teams, building the backend system and CI/CD pipelines and establishing the naming conventions that made token usage consistent across products.
Engineered specialized tooling to validate coded components against Figma designs.
Built codemods and migration tooling that reduced upgrade friction and made new design system releases materially easier for downstream teams to adopt.
Mentored developers and led code reviews to keep implementation quality high while raising the technical bar for the team.

Rocket Communications, Inc.

Full Stack Developer

2021-03-01 - 2021-11-01

Established visual regression testing practices and built an internal Puppeteer-based test suite that prevented CSS regressions from reaching production.
Helped lead the migration from Lit Element to Stencil within the Astro web component library, improving maintainability and accelerating adoption.

Mile 6, LLC

Lead Web Developer

2015-06-01 - 2021-03-01

Created internal developer tools to bootstrap and containerize new projects, reducing ramp-up time for new and existing applications.
Built and maintained an internal ERP system in close collaboration with stakeholders from inception through release.
Built a cross-platform mobile app used by healthcare providers for recruiting, including backend API, database schema, and frontend client.
Rewrote a mission-critical sales tool as a multi-tenant Vue single-page application that allowed 100+ dealers to manage quotes and sync with external CRM services including Salesforce.

Education

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

2011-01-01

Bachelor of Arts in English

Skills

TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue, Web Components, CSS, Design Systems, Design Tokens, MCP, Node.js, Lit, Figma, Laravel, MySQL, Postgres