Gavyn Mckenzie
Technical Director at Etch
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavyn Mckenzie is a seasoned front-end leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Technical Director at Etch after rising through senior and frontend roles since 2012. He specializes in design systems and UI architecture, evangelizing a component-first approach (humorously dubbed "Diamond UI") to bring consistency and scale to web products. Gavyn pairs deep practical experience—building websites since before CSS matured—with a formal background in Multimedia Technology & Design Engineering from the University of Kent. Based in Folkestone, he balances hands-on development with strategic direction, mentoring teams to ship robust, accessible interfaces. Known for an engineer’s craft mindset, he likes to describe his work as making the internet "one brick at a time," reflecting a pragmatic, iterative approach to design and front-end engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Technology & Design Engineering, Multimedia Technology & Design Engineering at University of Kent
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
swagger10
dialog10
oas10
isolation10
openapi10
swagger-ui10
api10
html10
storybook-addon10
json-api10
full-stack10
modal-dialog10
selector10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
etchteam/storybook-addon-status
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Add component status to the storybook UI
Contributions:11 reviews, 23 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
reactadd-componentstatusstorybookaddon
wrap-org/evergreen
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:50 reviews, 90 PRs, 134 pushes in 2 months
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