Cristian Morales Achiardi

Design Engineer

Complex Systems Design Agentic Systems Design Systems Code-Based Prototyping AI-Assisted Workflows AI-Assisted Development Research-Driven Design

Maker. Agentic systems builder, speaker, educator, and writer. Design Engineer from Chile. I build pipelines and tooling that optimizes design & code workflows. Developing agent skills, infrastructure, and methodology that makes it real. No translation gaps, no interpretation errors. Just seamless execution between design and code.

Work Experience

Southleft
Jun 2026 - Present
Fractional Design Engineering Partner
Aug 2026 - Present
  • Participated in client-facing discovery sessions to translate business objectives into technical design engineering roadmaps.
Fractional Design Engineer
Jun 2026 - Present

Design systems architecture on client engagements. Projects covering the design and implementation of AI-powered design systems under NDA:

  • Authoring a framework-agnostic web component library with first-class Angular, Vue, and React support. 60+ components under test across 3 products, serving 5+ designers. Contract-driven architecture for deterministic pipelines, proprietary agent skills, and a fully integrated Figma library for design to code workflows.
  • Embedded in a larger team on a React component library built for deep customization. Leading exploration on typography systems and swappable icon architecture. Designing and implementing a studio app for internal testing.
Currently here Bold marks a role's time span on my design journey since 2015.
Enara Health
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
Design Engineer
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
  • Architected Enara's agentic design system: contract-driven architecture and agent infrastructure. Supporting React and React Native libraries, consumed by a 10-engineer team. 100% component metadata and barrel-export parity, zero hardcoded colors across 80+ components, 1:1 auto-generated documentation.
  • Developed tooling, documentation and knowledge bases that empowered HR, marketing, sales, operations, and C-level to generate on-brand artifacts and prototypes. Built an AI-literacy benchmark across those departments and teamed up with the Head of Growth to facilitate an AI lab for cross-functional feedback and project demos.
  • Collaborated with the Head of Architecture to rebuild the website from WordPress onto Enara's AWS environment with Astro + React, cutting maintenance costs by 90%. Built agent-driven automation pipelines for content updates and data integrations that keep member-facing features always up to date.
Product Designer
Nov 2024 - Dec 2025
  • Led the member app redesign, using Enara's clinical research on success factors in telehealth weight care to win executive buy-in and partnering with a mobile engineer to build it. Restructured information architecture to consolidate core actions, driving a +29% increase in appointment clicks, +13% in progress views, and +25% in health tracking tool adoption.
UX/UI Designer
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
  • Directed Enara's brand refresh across clinic assets, sales decks, and digital platforms, establishing the foundational visual language and standardized design patterns that scaled across Enara and its partner clinics.
Honda | Web Designer - UX Consultant (Contract)
Dec 2022 - Feb 2024

Research, analysis, and design, partnering directly with the Digital Marketing Leader.

  • Led user research for Honda Services redesign (463 owners, 74.6% completion rate). AI-assisted analysis crossing demographic, behavioral and attitudinal data. Discovered 61% of loyal customers didn't know the platform existed, surfaced behavioral insights that enabled a go-to-market strategy shift.
  • Designed landing pages that drove a 30% lift in leads for Honda's latest cars and motorcycles.
Freelance | Web & Brand Design
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
  • Long-term client work across branding, web, marketing design, video and commercial photography production.
My first design job (2015) Bold marks a role's time span on my design journey since 2015.

Talks

"Encoding governance on agentic design systems"

Into Design Systems AI Conference 2026 — Mar 19, 2026

"Building an agentic design system"

Nerdearla Chile 2026 — Apr 18, 2026

Shipped

Open source tools
  • Shipped a Claude skills plugin that superpowers design to code workflows and enables the functional layers for agentic design systems with 1K+ installs via NPM.
  • Published 3 Figma plugins: DS Adoption Tracker, Code Syntax Generator, and Component Spec. Essential for design system adoption tracking, Figma to code pipelines, and component documentation.