Grant Blakeman
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorGrant Blakeman is a Principal Design Engineer with 13 years of experience blending product design, frontend and backend engineering to create polished web experiences for startups and large enterprises. He leads cross-disciplinary efforts at LinkedIn building design systems and internal tooling that improve designer-engineer collaboration, prototype-to-production workflows, and AI-assisted product design. Trained in business and grounded in brand storytelling from an advertising background, he brings a big-picture, user-centered lens to technical problems. He has a track record of shipping practical engineering solutions—like on-demand media servers and privacy-aware Figma tooling—that cut costs and raised quality bars. Comfortable as an individual contributor or leader, he thrives at the intersection of craft, tooling, and workflow improvement.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (93)
metal10
microsoft-translator-api10
web-frontend10
ruby-on-rails10
figma10
static-page10
plugin10
figma-plugin9
displays9
ruby9
omniauth9
wordpress-plugin9
tracks9
typescript9
rails9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gblakeman/gblakeman
Feb 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
interdiscipline/lockup
May 2013 - Dec 2021
Lockup Gem
Contributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 150 commits in 8 years 9 months
ruby-on-railsstaging-serverrailsrubygem
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