Sngmin Chae
Co-Founder at Base16 Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSngmin Chae is a software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building developer-focused tooling and leading small engineering teams from San Jose. As Co-Founder of Base16 Inc. and former Development Team Lead at WMakers, he blends hands-on full-stack development with product leadership to ship practical, user-centered solutions. He is an active open-source contributor to LunarVim, where he improved IDE ergonomics by refactoring extensions, keybindings, and LSP integrations—work that reflects a strong attention to developer experience. His background spans startups and product engineering roles dating back to 2016, underpinned by a dual Computer Science and Business Administration degree from Handong Global University. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who surfaces small UX fixes that significantly boost productivity, often revealing latent workflow pain points before others notice.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Business Administration at Handong Global University
Github Skills (13)
neovim10
vim10
language-server10
language-server-protocol10
vi9
lua9
svelte8
formatters7
lint7
eslint7
linting7
formatter7
linter7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LunarVim/LunarVim
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 18 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sngmin primarily contributed to the configuration and enhancement of the LunarVim IDE layer for Neovim, focusing on improving user experience and functionality. Their work included refactoring telescope extension configurations, adding display names for keybindings, and integrating a Svelte LSP configuration. Furthermore, the user updated keybindings, refactored nvimtree to be configurable, and migrated from galaxyline to lualine. They also addressed bug fixes, such as fixing typos and loading user's autocmd custom_groups.
lintersneovim-luavimneovim-configneovim
chaesngmin/nvcode
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Truly the Ultimate Neovim Config NVCode
Contributions:71 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 6 months
luavimneovim-configcoc-extensionsneovim
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