Summary
Julie Wongbandue is a Brooklyn-based Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in design systems and developer experience for frontend teams. She has led design system initiatives at Vimeo—building Bokeh with Chakra UI, Ark UI, and TypeScript—and created AST-based tooling to automate component migrations for ~180 engineers. Julie combines a visual arts background (BFA) with rigorous frontend engineering training, which informs her design-minded approach to scalable, accessible UI components and documentation. She’s delivered Storybook-driven workflows, visual regression testing, and automated release tooling to improve cross-team adoption and visibility. Now at Alloy, she continues to focus on making the frontend developer experience easier while balancing product work across Next.js, React, and TypeScript. An early career in gallery and logistics roles gave her practical operational discipline and a knack for translating design needs into resilient engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Web Development, Front End Web Development at General Assembly
BFA, Visual Art, BFA, Visual Art at Rutgers University
English