i build, teach Esther & tell stories about developer tools

developer advocate & technical educator

developer advocacy✰technical writing✰ai & dev tools✰docs writing✰open source✰design systems✰

currently

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building developer education for chakra ui and better design systems with panda css

02

building saas products and turning ideas into useful tools

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creating videos about ai developer tools and coding workflows

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writing about frontend, developer tools, open source and ai

writing

chakra ui: from 0 to 6.1M downloads/mo in 7 yrschakra ui / 2026styling base ui with panda csspanda css / 2026building a design system with ark ui menudesign systems / 2025building a job board with chakra ui, and directustutorial / 2023the beginner’s guide to an accessible webaccessibility / 2022
view all writing →on dev.to ↗

courses

panda masterylearn panda css from your first token to a production-ready design system.panda cssdesign tokensdesign systemsview course ↗
course 01panda css
tokenssemantic tokensrecipesdesign system
from first token
to full system
theming masterytokens, semantic colors, recipes and multi-brand themes, theming chakra ui properly.chakra uithemingadvancedview course ↗
course 02chakra ui · theming
lightdarkbrand
one component,
many themes
chakra ui for beginnersthe complete course for absolute beginners, from “what is a theme?” to shipping real layouts.chakra uilayoutsbeginnerview course ↗
course 03chakra ui · beginner
101
box
stackgrid
button
zero to your
first real layout

watch

no-codehow to make a website using canva in 2026
design → codegoogle stitch mcp tutorial: convert a ui design to code
mcphow to setup a notion mcp server with vs code and github copilot
ai designhow to connect your figma design system to claude design
ai toolslovable ai: save credits and maximize output like a pro
ai toolscreate cinematic ai videos with google flow
the youtube channelsubscribe ↗
the tech journey podcast
listen on spotify ↗apple podcasts ↗youtube ↗

tech journey podcast

how a failed idea turned into a $1.58m success storyadesuwa omoruyi49 min · ▶she quit bartending to become a software engineerebony louis35 min · ▶building moniepoint to $1billion: the untold storyjulian duru31 min · ▶easy ways to grow and monetize your youtube channelfisayo fosudo61 min · ▶landing her dream product design role at revolutoyeyinka oyerinde58 min · ▶my journey into open source and how it changed my lifesegun adebayo50 min · ▶
all episodes →

speaking

esther speaking on stage at cityjs conferenceesther speaking on stage at directus content dayesther at birmingham tech weekesther speaking on stage at middlesbrough frontend
color your world with chakra's color pickerchakra meetup / londona modern approach to css-in-jsmiddlesbrough frontend / middlesbroughrethinking content modeling for unforgettable user experiencesnorfolk developers conference / norwicha modern approach to css-in-jscityjs conference / londoneffective content modeling using strapistrapi conf / onlinerethinking content modeling for unforgettable user experiencesbirmingham tech week / birmingham

places i’ve worked

chakra uisenior developer advocatebuilds technical content strategy for chakra ui, shipping demos, docs, tutorials and launches like v3 and the mcp server.
directusdeveloper advocatecreated technical content for an open-source headless cms, helping directus earn a cms critic award nomination.
animalztechnical content marketing managerresearched and wrote 20+ long-form technical articles for clients in ci/cd, fintech and devtools.
buildabledeveloper experience engineerintegration tutorials connecting real-time events to the databases teams already use.
centricityfrontend engineerbuilt and optimized frontend interfaces with react and next.js, and maintained the company's wordpress site.

let’s make
something useful

speaking invitation?developer education?content collaboration?an interesting developer tool?
send me an emaillet’s talk ↗
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