Maya Chen

Senior Frontend Engineer

I build fast, accessible interfaces for products people reach for every day. Lately that means design systems, web performance, and making complex tools feel obvious.

Experience

Feb 2023Present
Senior Frontend EngineerLinear
San Francisco
Jun 2020Jan 2023
Frontend EngineerVercel
Remote
Aug 2018May 2020
Software EngineerStripe
Seattle

Projects

Orbit UI

An open-source React component library built for keyboard access, motion, and theming. Every component ships with full ARIA support, reduced-motion variants, and a headless API layered over Radix primitives.

4k GitHub stars and adopted by a dozen startups in production. Maintained with a contributor community, semantic-versioned releases, and a Storybook-driven documentation site.

ReactTypeScriptRadixStorybook
webvitals.live

A live dashboard that tracks Core Web Vitals for any public URL, re-measuring on every deploy and alerting when a metric regresses past its budget.

Runs field measurement through the CrUX API and lab checks on edge functions, charting p75 LCP, INP, and CLS over time.

Next.jsEdge FunctionsCharting
a11y-lint

An ESLint plugin that catches common accessibility mistakes in JSX before they ship, from missing labels to non-semantic click handlers. Ships with autofixes for the safe cases.

TypeScriptESLintAccessibility

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSSQLReactReact RouterNext.jsNode.jsRemixTailwind CSSCSS Modules

Certifications

May 2023
Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS)IAAP
Sep 2021
Frontend Masters ProfessionalFrontend Masters

Awards

Mar 2024
GitHub Star, Open SourceGitHub
Oct 2023
Speaker, React Advanced LondonReact Advanced

Languages

EnglishNative
MandarinFluent

Education

Aug 2014May 2018
UC BerkeleyB.S. Computer Science
Berkeley, CA