Eric Bonow
Senior Frontend Developer at Unitas Global
Bremerton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEric Bonow is a Senior Frontend Developer with nine years of experience designing and shipping performant, accessible web apps from Bremerton, Washington. He blends a mathematician’s attention to detail with a designer’s instinct for seamless user experiences, having led front-end efforts at Unitas Global, Isobar, and Apartments.com. Eric has deep React expertise and contributed accessibility and UI improvements to the widely used react-select component, including aria-live support and LiveRegion work. He has practical full-stack experience—optimizing payloads, building PWAs with web-workers, and integrating backend services—anchored by a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science. Known for turning complex requirements into “thoughtless” interfaces, he focuses on accessibility and real-world performance rather than flashy effects.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Eastern Illinois University
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Github Skills (11)
accessibility10
javascript10
react10
user-interface9
autocomplete6
html6
styles6
css6
jasmine6
react-select6
jquery6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JedWatson/react-select
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
The Select Component for React.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 61 commits, 46 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and functionality of the React Select component. They addressed issues related to screen reader support by implementing aria-live messages and incorporating the LiveRegion component. Additionally, the user implemented improvements to the user interface of the component by adding more visual styles.
reactreact-jsmulti-selectreact-selectreactjs
ebonow/reel-search
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
📽️🔍 A React driven web app to search movie information
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 1 month
reactmovie-informationmoviemovie-searchreactjs
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