Nonso, design engineer

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I’m a design engineer who builds with agentic systems. Currently, I run Rift Labs, where I set the product and design direction for Hedwig and Dobby, stablecoin-native financial tools, and carry that through to what actually ships in code.

What drives how I work is closing the gap between what’s designed and what’s built. That’s why I’m building elf-tokens, a CLI that diffs Figma tokens against codebase tokens and flags drift right in the PR, so a design system doesn’t quietly rot the moment nobody’s watching it. The inverse is in progress too: a tool that generates real Figma components straight from code, so the sync runs both ways. That same instinct runs through the products themselves: Dobby’s onboarding and tax layer got reshaped around real usage data instead of guesses, and Hedwig keeps growing as one connected system, not a pile of features bolted together.

Selected work

What I’ve done

Resume

  • Consultant, Dash Studios · Freelance

    2023

    • Advised a design studio on SEO and decided which content and technical fixes to do first to grow organic traffic.

  • Founder and Product Designer, Chowdown · Food delivery

    Oct 2022 to Oct 2023

    • Set the product direction for a food delivery startup and designed both the customer app and the driver app, from research to final UI.
    • Chose to shut it down after a year instead of building on without market pull, and carried those lessons into every product since.

What I’ve written

Medium

Let’s connect

Available for select projects

I’m always up for talking to people building thoughtful products at the intersection of design, code, and agentic systems. Reach me at [email protected], or find me on X and GitHub.