Lee Chase
Lead User Experience Engineer at IBM
Greater Coventry Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLee Chase is a Lead User Experience Engineer with 10+ years at IBM, blending hands-on front-end engineering, design prototyping, and mentoring across large-scale product teams. He specializes in Vue and React, SCSS, and component-driven design, and led the Vue implementation of IBM’s Carbon Design System which attracts thousands of npm downloads weekly. Known for turning design thinking into production-ready prototypes, he’s delivered conference-ready demos and solved high-pressure product bottlenecks while coaching others. A pragmatic technologist comfortable from low-level SQL and C++ in earlier roles to modern UI frameworks today, he brings deep institutional knowledge and stability—staying long-term to raise quality rather than chase titles. Colleagues rely on him for Carbon expertise, pragmatic feasibility analysis, and building reusable UI patterns that scale across products.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics at University of York
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
vue-router10
storybook10
ui-components10
jes10
system-design10
ui-design10
carbon-design-system10
sc10
system10
uid10
scs10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
sys10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-components-vue
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Vue implementation of the Carbon Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 93 reviews, 1106 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lee's commits primarily focus on building and improving Vue.js components within the context of the Carbon Design System. They added new UI components, like tooltips, accordions, and data tables, and incorporated existing Carbon components, such as buttons and form elements. The user demonstrated their ability to use slots for content, integrated custom SVG icons, and applied the Carbon Design System's styling to build reusable UI elements.
carbon-design-systemvuecarbon-components-vuecarbon
carbon-design-system/carbon-tutorial-vue
Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 83 commits, 944 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lee primarily focused on setting up and configuring the foundational elements for a Vue.js tutorial project. Their contributions involved adding essential dependencies like Babel, ESLint, and Vue Router, alongside basic test configurations. They established the project's initial structure, including the `App.vue`, `HelloWorld.vue` components, and routing setup. Additionally, the user refined the project's styling and ensured proper formatting to align with code style guidelines.
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