Chris Villa
Founder & CEO at Puck
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Villa is a London-based founder and software leader with 13 years of experience building developer tools, design systems and scalable web products. He founded Puck, an open-source visual editor for React (6.9k stars) that brings drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editing into developer workflows, and has repeatedly shipped front-end-first products at startups and enterprises including Saasify, Measured, Hilton and BT. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and CEO, he blends product design, React engineering and design-system expertise to help teams scale UI and content at enterprise scale. A prolific open-source maintainer, his projects span tooling that converts Storybook to design assets and automates social-image generation, demonstrating a knack for tooling that bridges design and engineering. He also has startup chops from founding consumer and SaaS businesses and a background in systems engineering and applied machine learning study from Warwick and Stanford courses.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Systems Engineering at University of WarwickMachine Learning (Online Course), Machine Learning (Online Course) at Stanford University
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
drag-and-drop10
responsive-design10
typescript10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
mysql-python10
typescript-types10
pip10
typescripts10
react10
python9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
measuredco/puck
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
The visual editor for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 371 reviews, 622 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed significantly to the development of the visual editor for React, named Puck. Their work focused on implementing a drag-and-drop functionality, including the initial implementation of a basic drag-and-drop system, refactoring code for better organization, and adding functionality to select components and modify content. The contributions suggest a primary focus on building UI components and integrating them into the editor.
saasify-sh/saasify
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
The easiest way to monetize your API. 🚀
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 40 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end development of a React-based SaaS application. Their commits focused on implementing a new "waves" theme, including styling various components such as the header, footer, and pricing plans. The user also addressed mobile responsiveness and usability concerns, improving the overall user experience.
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