Gert Hengeveld
Staff Software Engineer at Chromatic (we're hiring!)
Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGert Hengeveld is a Staff Software Engineer based in Utrecht with 16 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering teams. He specializes in Component-Driven Development, contributing heavily to Storybook and Chromatic where he shapes developer workflows, UI tooling, and interaction testing for large-scale design systems. Comfortable across the stack (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js, MongoDB) he combines hands-on refactors and feature work with mentoring and onboarding responsibilities. His open-source contributions include visible UX and component improvements to the flagship storybookjs repo and its design-system, demonstrating a focus on developer experience and visual consistency. Gert’s background spans e-commerce, telecoms and EV charging, giving him a pragmatic approach to performance and reliability in production. He also brings a maker’s curiosity from earlier industrial design and mediatechnology studies, often experimenting with progressive web apps and tooling as personal playgrounds.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Product Design and Engineering, Industrial Product Design and Engineering at SaxionBachelor, Mediatechnology, Bachelor, Mediatechnology at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
ui-components10
testing10
component-development10
typescript10
styled-components10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
system10
uid10
react-testing-library10
prop10
front-end-development10
sys10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
async-library/react-async
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
🍾 Flexible promise-based React data loader
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 releases, 1 review, 541 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gert primarily contributed to the development of the React-based library. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of new features, examples, and helper components for the library, as well as bug fixes and refactoring of existing code. The user also added support for server-side rendering and improved the overall functionality of the library. A significant focus was on expanding the testing suite to cover new features and improve code reliability.
reactreact-suspensejavascriptreact-datadata-loader
storybookjs/storybook
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
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:345 reviews, 836 commits, 231 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gert primarily contributed to the user interface of the Storybook platform by adding new features and improving existing ones. The contributions include adding a `storySource` feature, implementing styled components with pretty colors, creating story examples for displaying different UI states and refactoring component structures. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing user experience and improving the visual representation of the platform's UI components.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
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