Senior UX Engineer — Design Systems & Developer Experience

KousiganMoni

I architect the agentic UX systems, design infrastructure and AI-native toolsets that enable autonomous agents to interface with complex UIs — transforming static design patterns into executable, agent-readable libraries. More than a decade across financial services and enterprise SaaS, working as the connective tissue between product, design and engineering.

  • Based inChennai, India
  • Local time—
  • FocusAgentic UX · AI Orchestration · Design Systems
  • CurrentlySenior UX Engineer, FE fundinfo
  • 12+ years in product design & UX engineering
  • Enterprise design system strategy & governance
  • React component libraries at scale
  • Design tokens & UI standards
  • Accessibility (WCAG) embedded in the system
  • Developer handover & DX platforms
  • AI-assisted design systems
  • Agentic UI platforms
  • Automated UX workflows
  • Mentoring UX engineers & designers

/01 Expertise

What I do, and how I do it

Systems, not screens.

01 Systems over one-offs

Design Systems

Strategy and governance end to end — component architecture, design tokens, documentation and adoption. I build platforms teams reuse, not artefacts they file away.

  • Governance
  • Component architecture
  • Design tokens
  • Documentation
  • Adoption
02 Speaks the language of code

Design Engineering

I sit on both sides of the handover. Reusable React component libraries, UI standards, and specs engineers can build from without a follow-up call.

  • React
  • Component libraries
  • HTML/CSS
  • PWAs
  • Dev handover
03 Built in, not bolted on

Accessibility

Compliance stops being a project when it lives inside the component library. I embed WCAG frameworks into the system so every team inherits it by default.

  • WCAG
  • Inclusive patterns
  • Audit & remediation
04 Bridging design and code

Developer Experience

Shared standards, tooling and a common language between design and engineering — so quality goes up while delivery time goes down.

  • DX platforms
  • Tooling
  • Shared standards
05 AI-native workflows

AI in the SDLC

Integrating AI into how products get designed and built: AI-assisted design systems, agentic UI platforms and automated UX workflows that remove manual effort.

  • AI-assisted systems
  • Agentic UI
  • Automation
06 Force multiplier

Leadership

Mentoring UX engineers and designers, running critiques, and consulting across Agile teams. I make the people around me faster, not just the codebase.

  • Mentoring
  • Critique
  • Agile consultation

/02 Selected Work

Draft · sample figures

Three problems worth solving.

A collection of high-impact initiatives where I integrated AI and automation into the UX core, transforming traditional design workflows into intelligent, scalable systems that drive measurable efficiency.

InkBuddy CLI dashboard showing token synchronization metrics and CLI output.
DX · CLI ToolingLive
Design System · Enterprise SaaS

InkBuddy CLI

A high-performance design system CLI that automates token generation and scaffolding. Bridging the gap between Figma and production code with zero-latency synchronization.

  • <40msToken Sync
  • 100%Typed Output
  • 3MCP Tools
The Problem
Manual design system updates lead to drift and production regressions across multiple platforms.
The Solution
A unified CLI that generates type-safe tokens and scaffolds components based on design tokens.
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A11y Audit Tool dashboard showing a timeline of accessibility improvements and violation reports.
UX · AccessibilityLive
Accessibility · Compliance

A11y Audit Tool

Enterprise-grade accessibility auditing system. Automated scanning and manual review orchestration to ensure WCAG 2.1 compliance across complex web applications.

  • 12k+Nodes Scanned
  • 85%Auto-fix Rate
  • AACompliance
The Problem
Accessibility is often an afterthought, leading to expensive late-stage fixes and legal risks.
The Solution
A comprehensive audit dashboard with historical tracking and automated remediation suggestions.
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AI Pipeline Orchestrator Dashboard showing automated token flow from Figma to Production with a real-time execution log.
AI · Developer ToolingLive
AI Orchestration · Developer Tooling

AI Pipeline Orchestrator

Putting AI inside the design system workflow. Driving AI adoption across UX and engineering: AI-assisted design systems, agentic UI platforms and automated UX workflows.

  • 11hSaved per sprint
  • 0Manual docs
  • 100%Automated
The Problem
Manual token handoff between Figma and code is error-prone and consumes hours of engineering time every sprint.
The Solution
An agentic orchestrator that ingests Figma tokens, transforms them via Style Dictionary, and manages GitHub PRs automatically.
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/03 Experience

2009 — present

A design journey of more than a decade.

FE fundinfo

Chennai, India · 12 yrs 1 mo
Senior UX EngineerCurrent Mar 2025 — Present
UX Engineer Sep 2023 — Present
Product Designer Jul 2019 — Nov 2023
Senior UI Designer Sep 2014 — Jun 2019

Earlier

Chennai, India
Web DesignerCareer Optionz Sep 2012 — Mar 2013
Web DesignerThe Connectorz Dec 2009 — Mar 2011

Education

2005 — 2009
B.Tech, Information TechnologySSN College of Engineering 2005 — 2009

/04 Toolbox

What I reach for

Tools are the easy part.

Design & prototyping

  • Figma — auto layout, variables, components
  • Sketch
  • InVision
  • Zeplin
  • Mural

Systems & engineering

  • React component libraries
  • Design tokens
  • HTML / CSS
  • Progressive Web Apps
  • Accessibility frameworks (WCAG)

AI & automation

  • MCP Extensions for UI
  • Agentic UI Architecture
  • AI Workflow Engineering
  • Claude / Devin / Replit

Ways of working

  • Bridging product, design & engineering
  • Design critique
  • Mentoring
  • Agile team consultation

/05 Contact

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Let's build something
worth reusing.

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