Varun Vachhar

@vrn
finder of new ways to confuse myself
Toronto
he/him

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Front-end Developer

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Generative Art & Design

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I'm a DX Engineer at Chromatic and a contributor to Storybook. I specialize in component-driven development, design systems and generative art.

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I'm open to

giving resume feedback,

guest lecturing,

content creation,

beta testing new products,

speaking at events,

making introductions,

and speaking on podcasts.

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Portfolio

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https://storybook.js.org/tutorials/ui-testing-handbook/

Was on the CodeNewbie podcast to talk about DX engineering and Generative art. https://community.codenewbie.org/winkervsbecks/i-m-varun-vashar-developer-experience-engineer-generative-artist-ask-me...

Wrote a guide on how to build addons for storybook https://storybook.js.org/tutorials/create-an-addon/

https://rangle.io/radius/

Generative Art

https://mobile.twitter.com/winkerVSbecks/status/1442314808959844353

https://mobile.twitter.com/winkerVSbecks/status/1409010538617753606/video/1

Doing some experiments with StyleGAN trained on mesh gradients https://mobile.twitter.com/winkerVSbecks/status/1402063006067003393

https://varun.ca/noise/

UI Testing

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https://storybook.js.org/blog/accessibility-testing-with-storybook/

More on testing components, this time focusing on interactions. https://storybook.js.org/blog/testing-component-interactions/

Continuing with my series on UI testing, this week I look at such composite components that fetch data and manage state. https://storybook.js.org/blog/testing-composite-components/

Each story has a fixed set of inputs, it renders in isolation and allows you to visually inspect the output. Much like a unit test. https://storybook.js.org/blog/stories-are-tests/