Chicago, IL

Aleksandar Nedelkovski

UX Engineer — Design Systems & Front-End Platform

I build and maintain the component libraries, accessibility patterns, and front-end tooling that product teams ship on top of. Currently at HCSC, working on design system modernization for enterprise healthcare products.

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About

Where I work best

The gap between a design spec and a production component is where most teams lose velocity. I close that gap — translating design intent into accessible, maintainable React components that teams can ship with confidence. I care most about the decisions that make the next feature easier to build, not just the current one.

Selected work

Projects and case studies

Enterprise Design System Modernization
Professional

Enterprise Design System Modernization

Ongoing work building and scaling a shared component library for enterprise healthcare — improving component quality, accessibility patterns, and multi-brand theming configurations across 17 consumer-facing micro-frontends in the flagship member portal.

Impact: Standardized UI consistency across 17 consumer applications and established repeatable component delivery patterns.

ReactTypeScriptDesign TokensAccessibilityMicro Front-Ends
React Platform Upgrade
Professional

React Platform Upgrade

Led the React ecosystem upgrade for HCSC's shared component library and continue supporting React 18/19 migration efforts — dependency modernization, test suite fixes, component validation across consumers, and staged release coordination.

Impact: Unblocked downstream teams from shipping on outdated dependencies and reduced build-time warnings to zero.

ReactJestYarnComponent LibrariesCI/CD
Personal Homelab Platform
Side Project

Personal Homelab Platform

Multi-node home lab running internal DNS, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, automated backups, and containerized services — a working environment for learning infrastructure patterns hands-on.

Impact: Practical systems experience across networking, observability, backup strategy, and container orchestration.

LinuxDockerPrometheusGrafanaPi-holeRestic

Experience

Professional background

Current

UX Developer, Design Systems

HCSC Operations | Remote / Chicago, IL | 2022 – Present

  • Build and maintain reusable React/TypeScript components for HCSC's enterprise healthcare design system, used by multiple product teams across the organization.
  • Lead design system integration and engineering support for Blue Access for Members (BAM), HCSC's flagship consumer-facing healthcare portal.
  • Drive ongoing engineering support for multi-brand theming and custom token configurations across 17 BAM micro-frontends.
  • Led React upgrade for the shared component library: resolved breaking test failures, modernized dependencies, validated component output, and coordinated staged rollout.
  • Contribute to design system release engineering as both implementer and reviewer — validating changes, reducing delivery risk, and improving confidence in shared component quality across consumers.
  • Surface recurring implementation gaps and design inconsistencies; drive resolution through documentation, testing patterns, and cross-functional feedback loops to reduce rework.
  • Recognized for cross-functional contributions to a company-wide critical project — including upfront technical alignment, risk identification, and design system modernization work.

2017 – 2018

Digital Content Manager

Anna G Costumes | Chicago, IL | 2017 – 2018

  • Managed website content, SEO, and page performance for a small-business e-commerce operation using WordPress.
  • Grew organic search traffic year-over-year through structured content updates and on-page optimization.

Education

Education

2015 – 2021

City Colleges of Chicago

CS Prerequisites & General Education

Coursework in Precalculus, Calculus I–II, and computer science foundations. GPA: 3.36.

2009 – 2012

Goce Delcev University

Computer Design

Undergraduate coursework in computer design, later evaluated in the U.S. as equivalent undergraduate credit.

2018 – 2019

Coding Dojo

Full-Stack Software Engineering

Immersive program covering Python, MEAN stack, C#/.NET, databases, and full-stack application development.

Current interests

What I'm exploring

AI-augmented engineering

Actively building practical AI skills applied to design system workflows — documentation search, component guidance, accessibility auditing, and prototype acceleration through structured learning programs.

Metrics & design system observability

Tracking design system adoption, release quality, and component usage trends through operational reporting — making team impact visible and measurable for cross-functional stakeholders.

Platform engineering

Infrastructure patterns through a hands-on homelab: Docker, monitoring, DNS, automated backups, and containerized service orchestration.