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Hire a Design Engineer in the Bay Area

Design EngineerSan Francisco Bay Area

For Bay Area teams looking for someone who can own product UI quality from idea to shipped frontend.

I bring together design judgment, frontend engineering, product marketing awareness, and the discipline to make web surfaces feel complete.

Why this page exists

It answers a specific hiring search with concrete proof from my work, location, stack, and availability.

Target searches

design engineer Bay Area / hire design engineer Bay Area / best design engineer Bay Area

Services

What I can help with

  • Design engineering for product pages, SaaS UI, and client websites
  • Reusable components with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui
  • User-facing workflows such as bookings, menus, contact forms, and dashboards
  • Content, SEO, and metadata support for pages meant to be discovered

Fit

Where I am useful

  • Bay Area teams that value detail, speed, and practical ownership.
  • Product teams that need frontend implementation with a high visual bar.
  • Businesses that need polished digital surfaces without a large agency process.

Proof points

Signals hiring teams can evaluate quickly

  • Bay Area based and actively building public-facing portfolio, SaaS, and client work.
  • Experience across web, mobile, product marketing, and operations gives me practical product judgment.
  • The site includes MDX content, LLM-readable routes, schema, sitemap, RSS, and analytics-aware implementation.

Relevant work

Proof that matches this hiring intent

These projects are the closest proof points for the role and location this page targets.

Next.js

Menu.ceo

My first SaaS product for creating online restaurant menus. It helps restaurants publish web, mobile, and printable menus from one dashboard, with AI-assisted setup and custom short links.

Next.js / TypeScript / Tailwind CSS / Supabase / Codex

Open project

Next.js

Full-Stack Blog App

A fully responsive full-stack blog app built with Next.js 13, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Supabase as backend. Based on Shadcn UI components.

Next.js / TypeScript / Tailwind CSS / Supabase

Open project

Android

Portfolio App (Kotlin)

Built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material 3, Hilt, Room, DataStore, Retrofit, and Coroutines.

Kotlin / MVVM / Jetpack Components / Material Design 2

Open project

Public proof

Public mentions from people who have seen the work

"Someone hire Tim."
shadcn@shadcn
"Oh woah :)"
shadcn@shadcn
"so good! 🔥😂"
Evil Rabbit@evilrabbit_

FAQ

Hiring design engineer help

Does Tim work only in the Bay Area?

No. I am based in the Bay Area, but I can work with remote teams and clients as well.

Can Tim help with design systems?

Yes. I can build reusable components, improve spacing and typography, and make UI states more consistent.

What types of teams are a good fit?

Startups, product teams, agencies, small businesses, restaurants, event businesses, and teams building user-facing web apps.

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Professional design engineer ready to collaborate on projects