Urban
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Hello, my name is Urban. I am an Engineering Manager with deep experience owning and evolving UI platforms, design systems, and shared frontend infrastructure used across large, multi team organizations. I take responsibility for ambiguous, high impact problems that sit at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, and I turn them into durable systems that scale. My work has included leading major platform migrations, defining frontend quality standards, and building shared infrastructure that improves consistency, performance, and reliability.

I collaborate closely with designers, product leaders, and engineers to translate user experience goals into clear technical direction, aligning stakeholders through concrete proposals, architectural reviews, and shared ownership models. While I have held engineering management roles, my impact has come from hands on technical leadership, making hard architectural decisions, and building platforms that enable other teams to move faster without sacrificing quality.

Specialties: Engineering Management • Software Development • Front-end Development • User Experience (UX) • Design Systems

Work Experience
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  • Oracle

    7 yrs 4 mo

    • Senior Manager - JET

      Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - Remote

      • Led the modernization of Oracle’s JET frontend platform, defining and executing a multi year architecture roadmap used across OCI, Fusion Apps and GBU teams serving thousands of customers.
      • Drove a major VDOM migration of core UI primitives to address long standing performance and maintainability constraints, enabling more predictable rendering behavior and unblocking downstream teams building complex, modern applications.
      • Designed and introduced platform level abstractions for theming, layout, and component composition, reducing fragmentation and improving reuse and consistency across teams.
      • Established standardized frontend quality gates in CI, including accessibility, performance, and visual regression testing, significantly reducing regressions and increasing release confidence across product teams.
      • Led a sustained effort to eliminate accessibility debt by integrating automated testing, shared patterns, and clear ownership models, reducing the backlog by more than 85% and raising baseline accessibility compliance across the platform.
      • Acted as the technical bridge between design, product, and engineering by translating UX requirements into scalable platform capabilities, aligning stakeholders through RFCs, architecture reviews, and shared decision making.
      • Introduced clear ownership and operating models, including DRI and RACI, to reduce decision latency and ambiguity in cross org initiatives, enabling more predictable delivery.
      • Remained hands-on in critical areas of the codebase, contributing to architecture, reviews, and key implementations while mentoring senior engineers.

    • Senior Manager - OCI

      Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - Remote

      • Owned the technical direction and evolution of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure design system and shared UI platform, supporting multiple cloud services across a large, distributed engineering organization.
      • Led cross functional collaboration with design, product, and engineering to define a cohesive system of components, tokens, and patterns that balanced brand consistency with the flexibility required by diverse cloud products.
      • Designed and delivered core frontend architecture and component foundations, reducing duplicated UI work and accelerating feature delivery across teams building OCI services.
      • Partnered with senior engineers and designers to align UX requirements with technical constraints, translating complex workflows and cloud specific use cases into scalable, reusable platform capabilities.
      • Remained hands on in critical areas of the codebase, contributing to architecture reviews, key implementations, and technical decision making for high impact UI infrastructure.

    • Principle Software Engineer

      Oct 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - Hybrid

      • Served as a senior individual contributor owning core frontend platform architecture for OCI’s enterprise design system and component library, with responsibility for long term technical direction and system integrity across multiple cloud services.
      • Designed and built core UI components and patterns used across OCI services, with a focus on accessibility, performance, and consistency.
      • Drove adoption of modern frontend practices and design-system thinking across teams with varying levels of maturity.
      • Worked directly with engineers and designers to solve complex UI and workflow problems in production environments.
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