Kill the Design-to-Dev Handover — Figma API Automation & Design Systems
Berlin-based Full Stack Architect automating the pipeline between Figma and production code, so design and frontend teams stop waiting on each other.
Client & Context
Dr. Oetker — current role as IT Specialist / Frontend Architect (Aug 2025 – Present), owning the design-to-code pipeline for the Greenfield multi-brand platform.
The Problem
The design team ships components in Figma faster than frontend can hand-build them. The handover — manually re-creating tokens, spacing, and states in code — was the bottleneck slowing every release.
My Role
Engineered and own a custom internal tool that automates CSS token extraction directly from Figma, end to end — from the Figma API integration to production rollout.
What Was Built
A Figma API pipeline that turns design tokens and components directly into production code — eliminating the manual handover between design and frontend teams.
Technical Approach
Figma API Automation
Design tokens extracted and synced directly from Figma into the codebase — no manual copy-paste.
Themable Component Libraries
Atomic Design component systems that stay in sync with the Figma source of truth.
Faster Release Cycles
Handover time cut from days to hours — design changes ship the same week they're made.
Zero Visual Drift
Production UI stays pixel-accurate to design, automatically — not by manual QA.
Result
- Saving 3 days per handover cycle
- DesignOps cycle cut from days to hours
- Continuous deployment to the Greenfield architecture while maintaining 95+ Lighthouse scores
Relevant Services
Is Design Handover Slowing Down Your Releases?
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