Lead Engineer: Leland Rangel
Carbonate was built from the ground up as a collaborative effort between Design and Engineering. It replaced a multitude of 3rd party libraries being used across the organization with one unified presentation layer for all of the web applications.
The single solution significantly reduced the time it took to ship new features and cut down on time spent testing because we were not building each component from scratch. This took some a little engineering education and even more cultural encouragement. Moving to an enterprise-level workflow for teams that are not used to it takes some care, but everybody benefits in the end.
We also used Zeroheight to centralize design guidance rules as well. There were multiple data visualization tools in play at the time, so we worked to use them constantly even before we consolidated tooling on the engineering side.
