Tomás M.

Senior Design Engineer · Frontend & Design Systems

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

Design Engineer with 9 years closing the gap between design and production code. I design systems and build them: Figma token architecture to production-ready Vue and React interfaces, with the Backend For Frontend layer when it's needed. Through Taller Oliva I run COLAB sessions: human-AI collaboration workshops where teams go from problem to functional prototype in one afternoon. I also teach AI-augmented design at IED Barcelona, and facilitated at CERN's IdeaSquare programme.

Experience

  • Senior Frontend Engineer at Creative Force Team
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Director at Taller Oliva
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Studio focused on human-AI collaboration in design and product. I run COLAB sessions: intensive workshops where teams prototype and ship functional solutions in one afternoon through structured AI-assisted workflows. Working with design studios, universities, and innovation teams exploring how AI changes the way products are conceived and built.

  • Assistant Professor at IED Barcelona
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Teaching at the intersection of Design, code, and AI. Courses & programs: - AI & Prototyping Lab · Design for Interaction and Extended Realities (Master in Visual Communication) - CBI4AI Masterclass: Creativity & AI + Prototyping (IED, ESADE & UPC collaboration) - Human-AI Collaboration in Design · Thesis Project Mentorship (TeSI) - IdeaSquare Planet (i2Planet) at CERN, Geneva: Guest facilitator representing IED in a cross-disciplinary programme with IED, UPC & ESADE students, using speculative design to tackle real sustainability challenges.

  • First Design & Frontend hire at Anansi
    Apr 2023 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    First design and frontend hire at an insurtech startup that pivoted multiple times, from a Shopify plugin for small merchants to an enterprise platform for 3PLs. Owned the full product surface from user research to shipped interfaces. · Proposed and led full product consolidation, unifying split platforms into consistent architecture. · Built the design system from zero: Figma token architecture → Component library · Redesigned claims creation flow from 14 steps to 5 clicks with context-aware pre-loaded data · Rearchitected high-volume data filtering interfaces, resulting in strong positive feedback around speed and clarity · Drove early AI adoption: internal guidelines and LLM API integration into product features (2023–2024) · Led small cross-functional teams (2–3 developers) for specific delivery cycles Stack: Vue 3, Nuxt, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Pinia

  • Web Developer at Dialpad
    Feb 2022 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Frontend development on marketing surfaces for a global SaaS platform. · Drove the expansion of the marketing site to the Japanese market: DRI for the i18n integration into the existing multi-market architecture, eliminating codebase and maintenance duplication · Implemented performance and conversion-focused improvements across the site · Worked closely with design to establish component consistency across marketing and product surfaces Stack: TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, i18n