Alejandro A. Gerbec
Design Engineer | Frontend & Design Systems | AI Enablement
Buenos Aires, Argentina (working globally) • linkedin.com/in/gerbec • github.com/gerbec • gerbec.alejandro@gmail.com
Summary
Design Engineer with 13+ years crafting digital products end to end, from design systems and UI architecture to leading design and engineering teams.
I work where design meets code: component architecture, accessibility, interaction design, and the standards teams build against, across healthcare, fintech, and edtech.
Good products come from teams that share one language. I build that common ground between design and development, now with AI-assisted workflows that help teams move faster without giving up quality or accessibility.
Career Highlights
- Brought AI into the everyday work of design and frontend teams at Bridgenext, with shared workflows and standards that cut research and iteration time by 30% without compromising accessibility.
- Formed RedLink's UX team from scratch: hired, onboarded, and mentored designers and researchers, and defined the standards they worked by.
- Architected Bridgenext's design system and component library and drove its adoption across every product team, raising consistency, accessibility, and delivery speed.
Professional Experience
Technology services · Healthcare
Design Engineer
- Own the component architecture and how the UI is implemented across every product team, in React, TypeScript, and CSS.
- Lead UX end to end: research, interaction design, prototyping, and usability testing through to production.
- Authored and enforced the WCAG accessibility standards the whole product suite is built against.
- Set up AI-assisted design and development workflows that reduced research and iteration time by 30%.
Online tech education · Edtech
Senior Front End Developer
- Owned frontend development and component architecture within the squad, with consistent patterns across platforms.
- Moved the subscription page to Prismic, with content and language per country managed directly by marketing.
- Streamlined design–development handoffs, keeping design, product, and engineering aligned.
Banking network and payments · Fintech
UX Lead
- Led the UX function for complex financial products across web and mobile.
- Built and mentored the UX team from the ground up.
- Defined UX standards and interaction patterns used across multiple product initiatives.
Hospitality · Tourism
Designer and Frontend Developer
- Designed and built UI components, layouts, and a domotics & POS app for the 1828 Smart Hotel.
Community
- Co-founder and organizer of CSS Conf Argentina (2016, 2018)
- University professor, Web Design & Development, Davinci Institute (2017 – 2018)
- Speaker on design systems, design-to-code, and motion
Education & Languages
Universidad de Palermo
Image & Sound Designer (2017 – 2021)
Spanish (native) · English (advanced) · Italian (basic)
Selected Talks
- MCP, Figma & Code - A journey between design and development. CloudX Space Talk (2026).
- Design Systems at Scale - Bridging design and code. CloudX Space Talk (2025).
- OKLCH Colors - A new way to define colors on the web. CloudX Space Talk (2025).