Valentin Palkovič
Staff Engineer at Chromatic
Singen (Hohentwiel), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolValentin Palkovič is a Staff Engineer and frontend architect with over a decade of experience building and modernizing complex web applications for startups and large enterprises. He specializes in TypeScript, React, Vue, GraphQL and tooling (Babel, Webpack), pairing pragmatic engineering with architecture-level decisions to future-proof legacy codebases. Currently at Chromatic, he has been a visible contributor to Storybook—improving UI components, code formatting and feature stability in one of the industry’s most-used component tooling projects. His background blends consultancy and in-house leadership across fintech, logistics and digital agencies, so he moves comfortably between hands-on implementation and mentoring teams. Trained in electrical and information engineering at KIT, he brings both systems thinking and OSS etiquette to product-focused frontends.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Elektro- und Informationstechnik, Bachelor of Science - BS Elektro- und Informationstechnik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Energie- und Umweltsystemtechnik, Energie- und Umweltsystemtechnik at Hochschule Ansbach
German, English, ungarisch
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
component-development10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript9
vite9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
border6
html6
dom6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
storybookjs/storybook
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
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:1 release, 1001 reviews, 187 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to UI component development and enhancements within the Storybook ecosystem. They focused on refactoring existing components, particularly in the area of code formatting and adding new features. Additionally, they are involved in merging features and fixing various components based on the codebase.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
storybookjs/addon-webpack5-compiler-swc
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Adds SWC as a Webpack5 compiler to Storybook
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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