Engineering & research profile

Jesse Lumarie

Figma · 2026

Jesse Lumarie built AI tools and integrations at Figma at the time of his World’s Fair 2026 appearance. His work includes Figma Make, earlier growth initiatives and the company’s first MCP server. He focuses on the engineering behind useful design context for agents, including evaluations, reuse of existing components and support for different MCP clients.

1 conference talk

AI Engineer World's Fair 202616:46

Building the Engine While Flying the Plane: Launching the Figma MCP Server — Jesse Lumarie, Figma

Jesse Lumarie describes how a one-day-a-week experiment became Figma’s first MCP server in about three months. The talk covers design-context representation, automated evaluations, reuse of existing code components, workarounds for uneven MCP client support, and the decision to launch locally before building a remote server.

Jesse Lumarie

References

ai.engineer/talks/ZIYYsAzaLlA-building-engine-while-flying-plane-launching-figma ↗