Ariel Salminen is a Design Systems Architect from Helsinki, Finland with more than 20 years of experience helping companies build tools for the web platform. As an architect, she collaborates with design, product and engineering teams on the tactical and strategic direction of a design system and helps her clients set up the right tooling, processes and teams - all the way down to designing and developing complete design system platforms for them. Some of the most well known organizations out there trust the work she does, including Adobe, Amazon, AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft and U.S. Government.