Shaun Evening
Staff Software Engineer at CookUnity
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Evening is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience specializing in design systems, developer experience, and UI tooling. He has led developer-experience initiatives at companies like Wealthsimple and Chromatic, where his Storybook addons and integration recipes reached hundreds of thousands of weekly downloads and 300k+ recipe views. Shaun combines hands-on frontend engineering—shipping theme switchers and documentation enhancements for the widely used Storybook project—with people leadership and developer onboarding work that scaled support for 300+ engineers. His background includes engineering management, accessibility audits, and building internal analytics to catch developer errors early, reflecting a pragmatic focus on developer productivity and inclusivity. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, he also brings a teaching pedigree from Bridge School, where he wrote curricula and ran cohorts, making him as comfortable mentoring teams as he is shipping open-source tooling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer Computer Programming, Computer Programmer Computer Programming at Durham CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at Lighthouse Labs
Github Skills (9)
react10
storybook10
documentation10
ui-components10
javascript9
system9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 10 commits, 40 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to the Storybook UI component library, focusing on enhancing the documentation and functionality of the "themes" feature and integrating it into the component's structure. They added and modified documentation files for the component library. Additionally, the user's commits show modifications to the Table of Contents (TOC) files to include and organize styling and theme-related content within the documentation. Furthermore, the user implemented a theme switcher addon for Storybook components.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
storybookjs/addon-styling
Jan 2023 - Nov 2023
A base addon for configuring popular styling tools
Contributions:11 reviews, 58 PRs, 106 pushes in 10 months
addoncsspostcssscssstorybook
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