Arturo Silva — Front-End Architect

Selected work

2025—AccelerantDesign system lead — a Lit web-component library across ~two dozen MFEs, plus the AI agents and CI safeguards that let designers and PMs contribute production UI.
2020–25The Washington PostStaff engineer & design-system architect. Re-platformed the site onto a new engine and set company-wide performance budgets.
2016–20Red VenturesFront-end architect. Built a cross-framework web-component library and onboarding platforms for new-business integrations.
2012–16Lowe'sSenior front-end developer on Lowes.com e-commerce — accessibility, reusable UI, and performance.

The Washington Post Design System
React
Led development and the v1 rollout of accessible React components and design tokens built for consistency across washingtonpost.com.
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agent-tools
TypeScript
Open-source Pi extensions and Herdr plugins for safer, more capable AI-agent workflows.
lit-best-practices
Markdown
Twenty-seven prioritized rules that help AI agents build, review, and refactor Lit web components.
cssmark
Go
A zero-dependency Go toolchain that turns CSS @property rules into design tokens, docs, and diffs.
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seams
TypeScript
Zero-runtime CSS-in-JS for React Server Components, with a Stitches-compatible API.
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bragkit
TypeScript
A local-first CLI and dashboard that turns work across GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Slack into useful career records.
sheetbell
Astro
A self-hostable, Slack-authenticated form that logs submissions to Google Sheets and notifies a channel.
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