Teddy Ni
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarTeddy Ni is a software engineer and founder based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building developer-facing products. As Co-Founder of Magic Patterns and a former engineer at Robinhood and Instagram, he blends startup founding experience with lessons from large-scale consumer platforms. He contributes to the open-source Magic Patterns catalog—shipping frontend features like a React/Chakra UI color palette editor, onboarding flows, and code snippet showcases—demonstrating a strong design-forward frontend sensibility. Prior roles in product management and as Chief of Staff give him a knack for translating product strategy into shipped code. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth and focuses on turning design-led ideas into polished tooling for other developers.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
component-library10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
frontend-development10
react10
chakra-ui10
stylesheets9
style-sheet9
styles9
typescript27
typescript-types7
typescript37
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
magicpatterns/catalog
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
The Magic Patterns Catalog is an open-source website that lists the most popular React component libraries, helping you find the perfect component.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 82 commits, 174 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Teddy's primary contribution was the development of a color palette editor within a React application. The commits showcase the implementation of UI components such as color rows, input fields, and modals for editing and adding colors. The code changes demonstrate the use of React, Chakra UI, and the integration of color manipulation libraries, suggesting a focus on the frontend and design aspects of the project. Further commits involve enhancements to the user interface through component styling and implementing a full onboarding flow, including a code snippet showcase of the styling.
component-librarydesigndesign-systemreactstyling
Left-on-Read/leftonread
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Left on Read
Contributions:33 reviews, 208 commits, 270 PRs in 2 years 5 months
reacttext-message-historyimessagesqlite3text-messages
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