pablo deeleman / uiux.es

Pablo Deeleman. UI Frontend Architect  &
Design Systems Specialist

25+ years building high-impact, scalable web applications at the intersection of branding, UX and frontend engineering. Leading UX teams, scaling Design Systems, and shipping platforms used by millions. Currently based in Barcelona.

Formerly Twilio Dynatrace Red Hat Gameloft
Shipping since Y2K
Portrait of Pablo Deeleman
02 / 05 Experience · 26 years

A career, plotted.

Two decades of shipping at the intersection of branding, UX and frontend. Hover a dot to peek; click to read the chapter.

2025Now Barcelona

Nory · Staff Product Engineer

Owning Nory AI's most critical frontend challenges — driving cross-team React/TypeScript projects, setting the web reliability agenda, and acting as a force-multiplier for our internal Design System.

Timeline → 2000 — Now scroll ↔

Complete Experience History

  • 2000–2001: Trymedia Systems — UI Designer & Front-End Developer, Mountain View, CA. Designed and crafted the online presence for ActiveMARK, Trymedia's flagship DRM product.
  • 2001–2011: KOALAB — Founder · FullStack UI Developer, Barcelona. Co-founded an interactive agency building e-commerce solutions for hospitality clients.
  • 2011–2013: Dreamstar Cash — Senior UX Engineer, Remote. Lead UI/UX engineer across three Alexa Top 700 sites.
  • 2013–2015: Casumo — Senior Frontend Engineer, Malta. Built advanced web components for Casumo's casino-adventure platform.
  • 2015–2016: Gameloft — Senior Frontend Engineer, Barcelona. Contributed to internal tools and led ES6 migration.
  • 2016–2017: We Are Blue Orange — Lead Frontend Engineer, Barcelona. Architected reactive engine on TypeScript, Angular, RxJS, Redux and NgRX.
  • 2017–2018: Red Hat — Senior Frontend Engineer, Remote. Contributed to Angular UI of JBoss Fuse.
  • 2018–2021: Dynatrace — Senior Frontend Engineer, Barcelona. Architected Session Replay UI layer and contributed to next-gen Design System.
  • 2021–2022: The Hotels Network — Staff Frontend Engineer, Barcelona. Core member of the Agent team serving 12,000+ hotel sites.
  • 2022–2024: Twilio — Staff Frontend Engineer, Remote. Led UI and Auth layers of Twilio Admin for 20+ teams.
  • 2022–2025: Harbour.Space — Visiting Lecturer — Design Systems, Barcelona. Teaching Design Systems for Interactive Applications.
  • 2024–2025: GitKraken — Frontend Architect (Consultant), Remote. Tackled performance and scalability on GitKraken Desktop.
  • 2025–Now: Nory — Staff Product Engineer, Barcelona. Driving cross-team React/TypeScript projects and internal Design System.
03 / 05 Projects

Things I've shipped.

A selection of side projects and published work.

04 / 05 Skills

What I'm good at.

Eight technical domains where I bring depth and opinion — not just familiarity.

01Craft

Design Systems

Audit, planning and implementation across product teams.

02Frameworks

Frontend Libraries

React, Angular and Vue.js — used in anger, at scale, in production.

03Languages

TypeScript & JavaScript

Two decades of shipping the language, from ES3 hacks to strict, generic-heavy codebases.

04Emerging

AI Engineering

LLMs, agent design and AI-driven tooling and development.

05Backend

Server-side JavaScript

Production-grade APIs with Express.js and NestJS.

06Styling

CSS, SASS & Tailwind

Modern CSS, design tokens, utility-first systems and print-quality typography.

07Architecture

State Management

Redux, RxJS, Jotai and Zustand — picked to fit the app, not the other way around.

08Quality

Web Accessibility

Semantic markup, WAI-ARIA, keyboard and screen-reader QA as a non-negotiable.

05 / 05 Contact

Let's talk.

Got a new product to ship, a design system to tame, or a team that needs mentoring? I'm also happy to chat about educational collaborations — or just meet up for coffee. Pick the channel that works for you.