Jonathan Zempel
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Zempel is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and long-time design systems practitioner based in Chapel Hill, NC, with 15 years of focused experience shaping resource-oriented design and pixel-perfect UIs. At Zendesk he has evolved from Director of Design Systems into a senior principal role, blending creative leadership with deep engineering rigor to scale consistent interfaces and APIs across large products. His background spans startups and enterprise—building internet-scale social health apps at Genomera, fashion-forward UIs at Pickwick & Weller, and enterprise eLearning systems at IBM and Macromedia—so he bridges product sensibility with robust architecture. Known as a "pixel geek" on GitHub, he pairs an attention to visual detail with pragmatic system design, often favoring opinionated, service-oriented patterns that make developer experience a first-class concern.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (109)
multiselect10
autocomplete10
svg10
stylelint10
react-components10
react-component10
github-flow10
autosuggest10
combobox10
css10
react10
monorepo9
ckeditor9
react-autocomplete9
npm9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jzempel/zoo
Mar 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
zendeskgarden/website
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
:globe_with_meridians: garden website
Contributions:526 reviews, 97 commits, 445 PRs in 3 years
globereactgarden
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