Curriculum vitae · updated [month year]

László Simon

Design System Lead · Frontend and Software Architect

Uden-Veghel area, Netherlands · contracting through Phöenix Group LLC · remote across Europe

Frontend and software architect with fifteen years in the industry. I lead Gravity, the design system shared by four Toyota Industries companies on three continents, Toyota Automated Logistics, Vanderlande, Bastian Solutions and viastore: framework-agnostic web components, design tokens and multi-brand theming that work the same in Angular, React and Vue. Accessibility is part of the foundation, decisions are on record, and delivery is automated from pull-request previews to releases.

  • 2011in software since; contracting since 2017
  • EN · HUfull professional English, native Hungarian

Experience

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present

Design System Lead

Toyota Automated Logistics · contract · Veghel, NL · remote

  • Lead Gravity, the design system shared by four Toyota Industries companies: Toyota Automated Logistics, Vanderlande, Bastian Solutions and viastore. At Vanderlande alone it runs about 70% of the active frontends. Focus on architecture and engineering, working across UX, product and QA so that what gets designed is what ships.
  • Designed the v2 architecture from the ground up: framework-agnostic web components, design tokens and a multi-brand theme system that work the same in Angular, React and Vue.
  • Made accessibility part of the foundation, not a final check.
  • Introduced decision records and automated guardrails that keep the system consistent as more people contribute.
  • Automated delivery from pull-request previews to releases, so teams can try changes before they land.
  • Was the main contributor to Gravity v1, then made the case for a funded v2 with our UX designer; the sponsors backed it.
  • design systems
  • web components
  • design tokens
  • accessibility
  • CI/CD

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present

Technical Owner / Frontend Architect

Vanderlande · contract · remote

  • Led an Angular application (Angular 14, NgRx, RxJS, Lit web components) from inception to completion, including its CI/CD pipelines.
  • Joined the Gravity team in February 2022 to build a company-wide design system with pre-built components and guidelines, coordinated across several teams.
  • Promoted to Frontend Lead for the Digital Service Solutions department in 2022: worked with stakeholders, UX/UI designers and backend teams, and supported other frontend teams through mentoring and code contributions.
  • Projects: MyVanderlande, a central portal of micro-frontends; a data-quality application that visualises data integrity before it is published to internal teams.
  • Angular
  • NgRx · RxJS
  • Lit
  • micro-frontends
  • mentoring

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present

Freelance Software Architect and Developer

Phöenix Group LLC · self-employed · Europe

  • Web projects in marketing, streaming, e-commerce and fintech, among them VAT-IT Cloud and WTAX (cloud accounting services) and the OSN streaming platform.
  • Angular
  • React
  • Svelte
  • Node.js
  • OpenAPI
  • unit testing

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Senior Software Architect

Liberty Global · contract · Helmond, NL

  • Delivered technical designs from product requirements and improved the architecture of the next-generation set-top box (the 4K Horizon Mediabox, launched as Ziggo Mediabox 4).
  • Worked in Scrum with TDD; occasionally Scrum Master and Tech Lead.
  • Node.js · EFL · Yocto
  • TDD
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Gerrit

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T-Systems International

Debrecen, Hungary · four roles in under six years

IT Architect –

End-to-end architecture for virtualising a service desk’s telephony platform and the business applications built on it (Angular, WebSocket, Node.js, Avaya). UX design, development tech lead, Scrum Master.

Senior Developer –

Global service-desk applications and a low-level API for Avaya CM and CMS.

Lead DevOps Engineer –

Led the automation board of developers and Six Sigma experts. Lectured Mobile collaboration and IT security at the University of Debrecen.

Senior System Administrator and DevOps Engineer –

Windows and Linux servers, mobile-device-management back ends, automation, security reviews and penetration testing.

Earlier

Artwork Coordinator, Hoffmann Neopac AG · Debrecen