Henry Kaufman

Senior Design Engineer in Boston, MA

I design product and ship the code behind it.

Currently at Aspect, where I design and ship Facet, our design system. I also co-founded and run CoStudy, an education platform serving thousands of students across a dozen universities. On the side, I help build Next Play, a recruiting marketplace launched with friends in 2025. Now 100+ companies on the platform. Outside of work I'm usually running, cycling, or spending time in the outdoors.

  1. 2026

    Facet → WEM legacy port

    Porting Facet into WEM, Aspect’s flagship product — a 20-year-old codebase on Less, jQuery, and Knockout.js. Building Facet from scratch was the easy part. Landing it on top of two decades of stacked CSS — without breaking anyone’s muscle memory — is the work.

  2. 2024–

    Facet design system

    Designed and built Aspect’s design system end-to-end: Figma component library, exported tokens, Vue.js + Storybook implementation. Source-of-truth design changes propagate to production code automatically — no design-to-engineering handoff overhead.

  3. 2019–

    CoStudy

    Peer-evaluation platform for higher education. I co-founded CoStudy in 2019. Solo on the design and engineering side for seven years. A dozen universities, a few thousand students per semester.