CJ Cenizal
Head Of Front-end Engineering at Vectara
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolCJ Cenizal is a Head of Front-end Engineering with 14 years of experience building designer-friendly, scalable web UIs and leading cross-continental teams from Los Angeles. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship and design sensibility with engineering management experience, having founded Elastic’s EUI design system and driven major Kibana and Elastic Stack features like Upgrade Assistant and Snapshot/Restore. At Vectara he’s focused on laying an architectural foundation for rapid iteration and hiring a high-impact front-end organization to accelerate product-market fit. As an individual contributor at Chronosphere and long-time Elastic engineer, he improved CI practices, testing, and observability instrumentation while also improving hiring and collaboration processes. His open-source contributions include UI component work and responsive/iframe fixes in well-known Elastic repos (kibana, eui, stack-docs), showing attention to accessibility, performance, and developer ergonomics. He often operates at the intersection of design, product, and engineering, translating UX needs into production-ready architectures and developer-friendly systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
javascript10
ui-components10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
kibana10
uid10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
elasticsearch10
typescripts10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/eui
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 396 commits, 278 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:CJ's contributions primarily focused on the development and enhancement of user interface components within the Elastic UI Framework (EUI) repository. The user implemented new components, such as Modal, Hollow Button, ToolBar, and Dropdown, improving the UI's functionality and user experience. Furthermore, they refactored existing UI elements, incorporating new features and addressing visual bugs to ensure a cohesive and accessible user interface. These efforts showcase a clear dedication to UI design implementation.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
elastic/kibana
Jun 2016 - Jan 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:618 reviews, 1370 commits, 2997 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:CJ contributed to the Kibana repository by enhancing the Cloud plugin, adding functionality for snapshots and improving its interface. The commits included implementing unit tests and modifying code within the `cloud` and `es_ui_shared` plugins. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to authorization and made improvements to the error messages for the "Clean Repository" feature. Additional work included removing support for a specific console setting and enhancing the `useRequest` hook.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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