Bonnie Zhou is a design engineer and creative technologist with 11 years of experience blending product-grade front-end engineering, UX, and fine art practice from New York. Formerly an engineer on Material Design and Google Workspace teams and an early contributor to Material Components Web/React, she has deep expertise in modular UI systems—having refactored core text field, ripple, and chips components to improve API and styling consistency in a widely used open-source library. Now producing original artwork through Bonnie Zhou LLC, she bridges rigorous engineering discipline with visual experimentation, informed by a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Bonnie’s background includes iOS and backend internships, volunteer teaching, and machine-learning research, reflecting a rare mix of production engineering, pedagogy, and creative practice.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Contributions:19 commits, 35 PRs, 169 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bonnie primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of Material Components for React, specifically focusing on the Ripple and Chips components. They addressed bug fixes related to event handling within the Ripple component, ensuring proper functionality with key events, and implemented a new Chips component, including Chip and ChipSet functionalities. Furthermore, the user refactored list item management within the List component and added list divider and related components.
Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:104 commits, 146 PRs, 712 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bonnie primarily contributed to the Material Components Web library by refactoring and implementing changes within the text field component. They focused on restructuring the HTML and CSS for visual elements, including updating existing markup and adding new features, like outlined text fields and styling for input chips. These changes involved renaming CSS classes, updating file structures, and adapting the component's API to better align with the library's design principles. The user's work significantly improved the library's modularity and user experience.
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