Samantha O’Leary

Design systems are living infrastructure. My work focuses on building foundations that evolve alongside product complexity and organizational scale.

Principal UI Systems Architect with 10+ years designing and scaling SaaS-native design systems across growth-stage organizations. I build token-driven UI infrastructure that enables multi-team product organizations to scale without sacrificing semantic integrity, accessibility, or long-term maintainability.

Across QA Wolf, Acryl, and Astronomer, I have founded and long-term stewarded design systems from inception through organizational adoption, establishing semantic token architectures, contribution models, and extensible component primitives that evolve alongside product complexity.

I operate at the intersection of design and engineering, aligning system foundations with product velocity and cross-functional collaboration.

I approach design systems as long-term infrastructure investments. Strong foundations reduce entropy, accelerate product velocity, and create shared language across teams.

My focus is not just building systems, but ensuring they scale responsibly.