Mike Beach — Engineering Manager, Design Systems Manchester, United Kingdom Engineering manager for the Fable Design System at Sainsbury's, after progressing from software engineer to senior engineer and then into leadership. I build accessible frontend platforms and scale a multi-brand design system across web, iOS and Android. I manage the engineers, and bring AI-assisted development workflows into how we build. I care about UI that stays accessible and consistent as it grows: reusable components, design tokens, and the documentation and workflows that get a design system actually adopted. I've worked across JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS and Node.js, and I still like building things end to end. This CV is one of them. Experience ---------- Engineering Manager, Fable Design System, Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data (March 2024 – Present) Moved from software engineering into management, now responsible for the engineers, the technical direction and scaling a multi-brand design system across web, iOS and Android. - Lead engineering for Fable adoption across Sainsbury's and Argos. In 2025 the team shipped 77 releases, migrated 40 applications to Fable v5 and cut the number of design tokens by 42% - Took Fable beyond web, bringing design tokens and typography to iOS and Android - Helped introduce the Fable MCP package in January 2026, so AI-assisted tools work from approved components and design tokens - Lead work on AI-assisted engineering workflows, design-system analytics, platform migrations and adoption measurement - Manage engineers day to day, including recruitment and colleague development - Coordinated the Luna registry migration across the organisation in March and April 2026: found the affected repositories, communicated the risks and tracked it to completion Senior Software Engineer, Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data (July 2021 – March 2024) - Took on technical leadership, owning more of the engineering standards, shared components and design-system adoption - Advised engineers and delivery teams on implementation, accessibility, reusable components and migration planning - Worked with engineering, product and design to turn design-system strategy into technical plans teams could build on - Grew into stakeholder management, delivery coordination and mentoring alongside the engineering work Software Engineer, Sainsbury's (March 2019 – July 2021) - Built and maintained customer-facing web experiences on shared component libraries - Contributed reusable components, design tokens, accessibility improvements and engineering documentation - Kept the UI consistent alongside designers, product managers and engineers - Learned automated testing, CI/CD, Agile delivery and production support Front End Developer, Moriyama (March 2014 – March 2019) Agency work for a mix of client brands. - Built front ends for clients including PwC, PPG, Antiques Trade Gazette, Towergate Insurance and Sodexo - Worked in JavaScript and early TypeScript, building with Angular - Did a lot of the design work in code, alongside the front-end development - Shaped the CMS architecture on Umbraco, and earned official Umbraco level 1 and 2 certifications Trainee Web Designer, then New Media Designer and Developer, Liverpool City Council (LDL) (October 2011 – March 2014) Practically a front-end developer, before the term was widely adopted. - Designed and mocked up pages in Photoshop and Illustrator - Built the HTML and CSS templates that the .NET developers worked from - Put together front-end build tooling in Gulp, and added interactivity in JavaScript - Worked on internal Umbraco sites and applications, including the Liverpool City Council intranet, the LDL intranet and recruitment websites - First exposure to accessibility Projects -------- This CV — https://github.com/bakimchee/mikebeach-ssh-cv You're looking at it: a public, unauthenticated SSH server that renders this CV as an interactive TUI, plus a plain HTML page for anyone who'd rather stay in a browser. Run `ssh mikebeach.co.uk` for the interactive version. tech: Node.js, TypeScript, ssh2, blessed, Fly.io Education --------- BA (Hons) TV Production and Film Studies, University of Chester (2006 – 2009) grade: 2:1 Skills ------ Design Systems, Design System Analytics, Technical Leadership, People Management, AI-Assisted Development, JavaScript / TypeScript, CSS & HTML, CMS Architecture, Accessibility (a11y), Agile Delivery, UX Contact ------- Email: me@mikebeach.co.uk GitHub: https://github.com/bakimchee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-beach/ (connect with a real terminal for the interactive version)