Chad Donohue
Design Engineer
I'm a software engineer who obsesses over the details so users don't have to. Clean interfaces, smooth interactions, software that just works.
I've watched frameworks come and go, hype cycles rise and fade. What stays constant: simple is hard and taste matters. Lately I've been thinking about what that means now that we're building for LLMs as much as human users.
Currently
Staff Software Engineer at Droplet
Created a design system built on semantic tokens, accessible primitives, and styled components that bridged engineering and design. Introduced local AI workflows that accelerated development across the team. Helped ship a new document signing product that expanded the platform into a new market segment.