Segun Adebayo
Lead Software Engineer at Chakra
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Segun Adebayo is a Lead Software Engineer and UX-focused frontend specialist with 7 years of experience building accessible design systems and production UI components using React, TypeScript, and CSS-in-JS. He is the creator and primary maintainer of Chakra UI, a widely adopted open-source React component library with 400K+ downloads, and contributes to zag, a finite-state-machine toolkit for accessible components across multiple frameworks. Segun has driven design-system initiatives at companies like Vercel, Tradeling and Socket, improving developer experience, accessibility, RTL support, and testing practices. He combines product design chops (Figma, Sketch) and marketing tooling knowledge with hands-on engineering, having founded a SaaS product and shipped high-conversion marketing funnels. Based in Manchester, he balances leadership and hands-on code, often surfacing subtle accessibility and DX improvements that speed delivery and reduce cognitive load for teams.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc Mechanical Engineering at University of Lagos
Github Skills (19)
accessibility10
javascript10
acc10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
typescript10
nextjs10
frontity10
mdx10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
acessibility10
typescripts10
react10
chakra-ui10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-ui/zag
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Build your design system in React, Solid, Vue or Svelte. Powered by finite state machines
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 1450 commits, 1464 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Segun primarily contributed to the UI components of the "zag" project, which focuses on building design systems. Their commits show a focus on refactoring and implementing new features within the UI framework. Specific contributions include getting popper functionality working within popovers, updating existing examples, and adding support for accessibility features.
accessible-designvueaccessibilityui-componentsui-kit
chakra-ui/chakra-ui
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Chakra UI is a component system for building products with speed ⚡️
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 262 reviews, 4827 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Segun primarily focused on developing and updating UI components for the Chakra UI library. Their contributions included creating and modifying components such as Code, Highlight, Kbd, Link, Em, and Heading. They also added examples to the compositions app, updated documentation, and integrated new examples into the playground.
reactaccessiblereact-applicationsui-librarya11y
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