Jimmy Somsanith
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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RockstarJimmy Somsanith is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep backend Java expertise with strong frontend architecture and accessibility work. After leading transversal frontend architecture and tooling at Talend, he now shapes user-facing systems at Komodo Health while keeping a foot in backend design. He has modernized legacy stacks, coordinated remote teams, and built proofs-of-concept that influenced multiple product teams. An active contributor to the Storybook Design System, he focuses on pragmatic accessibility and semantic HTML improvements across common UI components. Based in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, France, he values polyvalence and deliberately cultivates both frontend mastery and backend robustness. Colleagues know him for curiosity-driven learning—switching emphasis from backend to frontend to broaden impact across the stack.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
html10
accessibility10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
storybook9
css9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/design-system
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
🗃 Storybook Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to improving the accessibility of various UI components within the Storybook Design System. They focused on enhancing the accessibility of the Avatar, AvatarList, Input, Textarea, Checkbox, and Radio components by adding necessary ARIA attributes, fixing label alignments, and ensuring proper semantic HTML structure. Additionally, the user addressed styling issues and added features to enhance the overall user experience.
reactstyled-componentsstorybookdesign-systemtypescript
Talend/data-prep
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
OS code of Data-prep project
Contributions:1272 commits, 177 PRs, 779 pushes in 4 years
data-prep
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