Dan Stondin

Design systems and operations leader helping teams scale design impact through structure, clarity, and collaboration.

At Medidata, I lead Design Operations and the 1X Design System, supporting over fifty designers across multiple product areas. My focus is on connecting people, process, and tooling — building the structures, governance, and shared language that help design and engineering move faster together.
Previously, I helped build and scale products and systems at Jeli (acquired by PagerDuty), SolarWinds, and Librato (acquired by SolarWinds).
Design at Medidata
Connecting People, Process, and Practice
AppOptics
Player-Coach
Librato
Design Founder
Homey.io
Design Founder (coming soon)

My career so far and some kind words

Director, Design Operations & Systems
2023 - Present
Head of Product Design
2020 - 2023
Head of Product Design: AppOptics
2015 - 2019
Co-Founder & Head of Product Design
2010 - 2015
"I had the pleasure of working with Dan on many projects at SolarWinds; as my manager he helped support the growth and development of the design org within a strong engineering domain. We worked through many tough technical problems, that required system thinking resulting in platform solutions. From creating design systems, optimising first time UX to creating new visualisations for millions of disturbed traces; Dan is a fearless leader that I would be delighted to work with him again and be part of his team."
Ben Arent
Director of Product at Gravitational
"I loved working with Dan on AppOptics—he’s passionate and understands his products and users at a fine-grained level. He was the bridge between complex technical use-cases and great design execution."
Dan Kuebrich
Director of Engineering at FullStory
"Dan has a unique ability to see the whole picture for a product. He’s not only a great designer, he also has a keen eye for user experience, business requirements, and market fit. He has experience with and awareness of the more technical side of things, which, as an engineer, made it very enjoyable to work closely with him. In short, Dan is the kind of person that will very quickly become an irreplaceable member of your team."
Adam Jahnke
Senior Software Engineer at Jeli.io

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