Chakir Qatab is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 17+ years delivering over 100 web and mobile platforms across high-impact projects like Smart Dubai, Dubai Airport Greeting, and LIFE Pharmacy. Currently Head of Technology in Dubai and part-time CTO at fast-moving startups, he blends strategic product vision with deep technical execution across AI, cloud (AWS), DevOps and CI/CD. A proactive open-source maintainer, he authored the official Nuxt Storybook integration—featured by Storybook and Nuxt and downloaded 44k+ times—and leads the Storybook Vue team contributing Vue3 templates and component fixes. He routinely ships AI-powered SaaS and agent interfaces using OpenAI, LangGraph and Gemini, while improving security and code quality through automated pipelines. Comfortable shifting between code and boardroom, he’s known for scaling dev teams, fostering developer experience, and shipping production-grade integrations that are rarely visible but critical to product reliability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Information Technology, DUT, Information Technology at Université Hassan II
Licence, Sciences physiques, Licence, Sciences physiques at Faculté des Sciences Ben M'sik
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:160 reviews, 95 commits, 67 PRs in 25 days
Contributions summary:Chakir's commits focus on adding and modifying Vue.js components within the Storybook environment for the "storybookjs/storybook" repository. They implemented new templates for Vue3-Vite, including "Page.vue", "Header.vue", and "Button.vue" components, demonstrating a strong understanding of Vue3 and its associated tooling. They also addressed rendering issues to ensure the correct display of slots. Moreover, the user worked to improve the interactivity of existing components within the Storybook ecosystem.
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
cssjavascript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.