A great product sweats the details,

strives for accessibility,

and runs smoothly on every device.

I help teams build, scale, and release great products
that feel natural.

Bruno Kawka

Frontend Engineer @Upside

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Digital Contributions

Knowledge sharing

Last article

Optimizing your React application for the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Web Vitals metric.

In March, Google released a new Core Web Vital called Interaction to Next Paint (INP). It measures the speed of interactions with the website. In this article, you’ll learn more about INP from the developer’s perspective. I’ll guide you through testing for INP, verifying potential causes of low INP scores, and how you can leverage new React tools to optimize your website for recent changes.

Last video

Coming soon

Soon

Last talk

Rethinking UI building strategies @ SFI '24

Building UI that scales is hard. In this talk, we'll navigate through practical strategies for structuring React components and business logic. Additionally, we'll introduce alternative approaches, pushing the boundaries of modern front-end architecture.

I also help humans on StackOverflow

Experience

I was working on some awesome projects, collaborating with amazing people, and creating my own things. I gathered the most valuable experiences and listed them chronologically.

Man climbing

The Beginning of the Journey

Wrote my first "Hello, World!"

May '15
Laptop

Android Developer

Mobile-Wallet @ Mifos Initiative

Oct '18—Jan '19
Trophy

Google Code-In Winner

International coding contest

Jan '19
Laptop

Freelance Full-Stack Developer

Dec '20—Feb '22
Laptop

Frontend Engineer

@ Upsidelab

Mar '22—Now
Laptop

Technical Recruiter

@ Upsidelab

Jul '22—Now
Microphone

Public Speaker

"Animating the Web" @ SFI

Mar '23
Microphone

Webinar Speaker

"Animating the UI with performance in mind using React" @ dev.js summit

Oct '23
Video camera

YouTube Content Creator

@brunokawka

Mar '24—Now
Microphone

Public Speaker

"Rethinking UI building strategies" @ SFI

Apr '24
Thinking face

Soon

Jul '24

About

I enjoy traveling, and exchanging experience in person on tech conferences. Recently I’ve been to SFI@Poland (speaker), ReactDays@Berlin, and WeAreDevelopers@Berlin. Looking forward to attending more in the future.

I got into programming at the age of 14 - discovered I could leverage Lua and C++ to gain an edge in video games. At the age of 17 I won the international programming contest organized by Google.

Read my story

I’m passionate about software engineering, and UI/UX design. Frontend development allows me to experience the best of both worlds.

React

Next.js

shadcn/ui

Atomic Design

Typescript

Tailwind

React native

Material Design

Human Interface Guidelines

Framer-motion

UI Engineering

Performance

Accessibility

Animations

Public speaking

Knowledge sharing

Technical recruiting

UI/UX

Contact

Follow me on YouTube for a dose of Frontend Engineering knowledge: @brunokawka
Be up-to-date with my Frontend findings on X (Twitter): @brunokawka
Code review my projects on GitHub: @letelete
Check my LinkedIn: in/brunokawka
Chat on Telegram: me/letelete

Made with

and a lot of Coffee

All rights reserved © Bruno Kawka 2024

Taste

is

maybe

the

biggest

deciding

factor

in

whether

a

product

ends

up

*feeling*

good

or

not,

regardless

of

how

much

skill

is

involved.

Taste is maybe the biggest deciding factor in whether a product ends up *feeling* good or not, regardless of how much skill is involved.

~@benjitaylor