Jonathan Bakebwa
Co-Founder at Chakra UI Vue
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolJonathan Bakebwa is a founder and hands-on engineer with nine years of experience building web3 products and design systems, currently leading Xtellar and co-founding Mirror World while serving as CTO at Mirror World and founding engineer at Donut Browser. He specializes in Solana and Ethereum development and excels in front-end engineering with Vue.js, TypeScript, and Node.js, contributing notable Vue integrations and component work to high-profile open-source projects like Chakra UI and Zag. Jonathan’s open-source contributions show a focus on accessible, stateful UI components (accordions, comboboxes, menus, tooltips) and pragmatic library enhancements such as a polymorphic "as" prop for vue-styled-components. Based in Kampala and educated in Beijing, he blends international startup leadership with deep technical craft, shipping both product and developer tooling. He also maintains a public technical blog and brings a values-driven perspective informed by long-term volunteer work and personal faith.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBachelor of Science - BS 计算机科学与技术 【Computer Science & Technology】, Bachelor of Science - BS 计算机科学与技术 【Computer Science & Technology】 at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English, Bantu
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Github Skills (28)
accessibility10
javascript10
storybook10
headlessui10
ui-components10
testing10
css10
css-in-js10
styled-components10
ui-design10
system10
front-end-development10
vue10
state-machine10
react10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-ui/chakra-ui-vue
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
⚡️ Build scalable and accessible Vue.js applications with ease.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 114 reviews, 1569 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Chakra UI Vue project by fixing color variant warnings in the core Kiwi framework and adding new features for the RadioButtonGroup component, including the implementation of its stories. They further enhanced the project by adding a new tag component with its stories, extending the library with a switch component, and integrating the v-model implementation in the checkbox component for better reactivity. They were also involved in enhancing various existing components, such as the number input by adding padding for styling and adding improved test coverages.
nuxtvuejs-componentsvuewai-ariaaccessibility
chakra-ui/chakra-ui
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Chakra UI is a component system for building products with speed ⚡️
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Chakra UI library, focusing on component enhancements and refactoring. Their work included adding attributes to existing components, initializing utility packages, and refactoring components to use the new utility modules. Furthermore, the user updated existing components to consume `react-utils` to improve component behavior and accessibility. They also ensured tests were passing and properly structured.
reactaccessiblereact-applicationsui-librarya11y
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