Timo Lins
Staff Product Designer at Vercel
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo Lins is a Staff Product Designer at Vercel with 11 years of hands-on experience blending product design and engineering to ship observability and analytics features. A co‑founder of Splitbee (acquired by Vercel) and creator of fast side projects like Feedback Fish, he brings entrepreneurial drive and product intuition to large‑scale developer tooling. Equally comfortable writing TypeScript and backend Node code, his open‑source work ranges from a popular React toast library to API and scraping utilities that emphasize reliability and ergonomic APIs. Based in Vienna, he pairs practical engineering—such as extracting reusable hooks and improving API response handling—with a designer’s eye for animation and UX, making complex systems feel simple.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Matura Multimedia, Matura Multimedia at Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt
German, English
Stackoverflow
90reputation
4kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (28)
json10
notion-api10
javascript10
instagram10
apidoc10
cloudflare-workers10
notification10
api10
front-end-development10
nodejs10
nodes10
react10
authentication9
typescript9
user-authentication9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
timolins/react-hot-toast
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Smoking Hot React Notifications 🔥
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 14 reviews, 250 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Timo focused on the development of the React-based notification library. Their contributions centered around extracting core logic into a `useToasts` hook to manage toast notifications. They implemented UI components, including the `ToastBar` and updated them to support features like dynamic height. The user's work included improvements to the library's animation to improve user experience.
reactreact-notificationstoast-notificationssmokingnotifications
splitbee/notion-api-worker
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Notion as CMS with easy API access
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / API Developer
Back-end Developer / API DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Timo primarily focused on enhancing the API functionality and data handling within the Notion CMS project. Their commits demonstrate improvements in request processing, including updating the authorization method and automatically stringifying API responses. They also implemented features like fetching missing blocks for toggle lists and returning working image URLs, refining the data retrieval and presentation logic for the API. These changes contribute to a more robust and user-friendly API experience.
cmsapinotionapi-accesscloudflare-workers
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