Dominic Lee
Senior Software Engineer (Contract) at Seedmist Works
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDominic Lee is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building performant full-stack systems and shipping product-facing features across startups and scaleups. He has driven measurable impact—rebuilding REKKI’s OrderAI dashboard with SvelteKit to cut load times by over 50%, improving React Native onboarding to lift conversion by 20%, and maintaining Go backends powering high-volume food ordering. An active open-source contributor, Dominic has improved developer UX in popular projects like Chakra UI and Storybook, adding robustness around CSS variables and enhancing addon-jest and file controls. Comfortable moving between front-end polish and backend services, he also sets up observability for LLM-driven systems, blending practical engineering with an interest in applied AI. Unusually for an engineer, his background spans anthropology, education and fitness coaching, which surfaces in a user-first approach and hands-on product empathy.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Anthropology at Concordia UniversityQuebec Diploma of College Studies Communications Media and Studio Arts, Quebec Diploma of College Studies Communications Media and Studio Arts at Vanier College
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
css-in-js10
ui-design10
component-kit10
jestjs10
addon10
react10
chakra-ui10
accessibility9
file-upload9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily contributed to the Storybook project by enhancing the addon-jest functionality, which infers and displays test results. They refactored the code to improve readability and maintainability, focusing on how test files are identified and integrated. Their work also included adding a file control story in the addon-controls stories, enabling the uploading and display of image files in storybook stories.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
chakra-ui/chakra-ui
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Chakra UI is a component system for building products with speed ⚡️
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily contributed to the Chakra UI component library. Their work focused on enhancing the component's functionality, as evidenced by their additions of features such as CSS variable handling for negative values within styled-system. They also improved documentation and added assertions to tests, specifically around CSS variables and scaled values within the theme. This demonstrates a focus on improving the library's robustness and usability.
reactaccessiblereact-applicationsui-librarya11y
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