Lazar Nikolov
Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Sentry
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLazar Nikolov is a full‑stack Senior Developer Experience Engineer with 11 years of hands‑on experience building web applications and improving developer workflows. He blends practical engineering—React, JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript and backend work in Node/Python—with a passion for teaching, creating popular tutorials and in‑depth courses on egghead.io and YouTube. At Sentry he translates complex platform features into approachable demos and content, and as a core contributor to Chakra UI he’s helped improve docs, accessibility and the project’s website and templates. He also founded creatures.sh, a growing developer community that fosters collaboration around architecture, testing and modern web tooling. Comfortable moving between shipping production features and crafting learnable explanations, he focuses on making developer tools reliable and delightful to use. A less obvious strength: he consistently pairs UI polish with documentation and demo work, ensuring features are discoverable and easy to adopt.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - Skopje
Macedonian, English
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
react-components10
ui-components10
typescript10
nextjs10
html-template10
python-templates10
react-component10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
uikit10
typescripts10
cpp-templates10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-ui/chakra-ui-docs
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Documentation website for chakra ui
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:244 reviews, 985 commits, 848 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Lazar's commits primarily focused on updating and maintaining the documentation website for Chakra UI. They were involved in migrating documentation content to a separate repository while preserving the git history. The code changes indicate a focus on modifying the homepage by adding and modifying various UI components, particularly with React and TypeScript. Furthermore, they optimized SVG code and made accessibility improvements to the search button.
documentation-websitereactemotionjschakra-uichakra
hauptrolle/chakra-templates
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
A growing collection of responsive Chakra UI Templates ready to drop into your React project.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 40 commits, 10 PRs in 27 days
Contributions summary:Lazar primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Chakra UI templates. They implemented features such as opening links in new tabs, adding copy-to-clipboard functionality for code samples, and making titles clickable. Additionally, the user added a new "Download App Links" feature and made further improvements to the design and responsiveness of existing components. This involved modifications to several components including Header, Example, and sections related to the Download App Links feature.
reacttemplatereact-projecttemplateschakra-ui
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