Jimmy Somsanith
Staff Frontend Engineer at Komodo Health
Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Somsanith is a Frontend Developer with 11 years of experience, currently a Staff Frontend Engineer at Komodo Health and formerly a Frontend Architect at Talend, based in Nantes, France. He specializes in accessible, component-driven UIs and has contributed notable accessibility enhancements to widely used open-source projects like Storybook, improving a11y tooling and vision simulation. Jimmy blends hands-on engineering with design-system expertise, having fixed ARIA attributes, component patterns, and typing/import issues to make interfaces more robust for assistive technologies. Colleagues rely on him to translate accessibility and UX requirements into practical, well-tested frontend solutions that scale across products. An understated strength is his focus on developer experience—optimizing workflows and tooling so teams can ship inclusive UIs faster.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur, Electronique et Informatique, Ingénieur, Electronique et Informatique at Polytech SorbonneDEUG MIAS, Mathématiques-Informatique, DEUG MIAS, Mathématiques-Informatique at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
French, English
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
ui-design10
storybook10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
react10
testing10
front-end-development9
system9
uid9
html8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/design-system
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
🗃 Storybook Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Jimmy focused on enhancing the accessibility and functionality of the Storybook Design System. They made several commits addressing accessibility issues in various components, including Radio, Select, Icon, and Link elements. Key contributions involved adding `aria-label` attributes, correcting accessibility attributes, and optimizing component structures to improve user experience for assistive technologies. They also added wrapper examples in the stories.
reactstyled-componentsstorybookdesign-systemtypescript
storybookjs/storybook
Apr 2022 - May 2022
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:13 reviews, 17 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to the accessibility features of the Storybook project. They focused on enhancing the a11y addon, including displaying the number of accessibility issues in the addon tab title, improving the vision simulator tool and fixing related tests. The user also addressed a11y parameters, ensured proper import configurations, and resolved typing issues to improve the functionality of the Storybook UI.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
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