Chris Pearce
Senior Software Engineer at Checkbox
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Pearce is a senior front-end engineer with over two decades of UI craftsmanship and 11 years in senior roles, known for systemising interfaces through robust design systems and embedding accessibility into product culture. He repeatedly builds domain-agnostic component libraries and token systems that accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt across organisations from startups to enterprises like Qantas and Atlassian. Chris pairs a designer’s eye with engineering discipline—writing clear documentation, improving developer experience with tooling, and enforcing performance and Core Web Vitals. He mentors teams, runs guilds and workshops, and has led design-system adoption end-to-end, including Figma-to-code ambitions to automate UI curation. Not obvious from job titles: he’s equally comfortable driving org-wide change (accessibility audits, company presentations) and rolling up his sleeves to componentise complex flows like authentication to measurably improve speed and maintainability. Based in Wollongong, Australia, he’s focused now on automating and scaling design systems so teams spend less time hand-coding and more time composing resilient, inclusive UI foundations.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education, Web Development, Distinction, Diploma of Education, Web Development, Distinction at TAFE NSWCertificate IV, Website Production, Distinction, Certificate IV, Website Production, Distinction at TAFE
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
bem10
dialog10
ember10
isolation10
javascript10
emmet10
react-component10
oocss10
campaign-monitor10
dates10
html10
datepicker10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chris-pearce/backpack.css
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
A lightweight and somewhat opinionated CSS foundation that is best suited to applications 🎒.
Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 11 months
css-foundationsasscss-normalisecssfoundation
kllevin/citychiropractor
Sep 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 61 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 8 months
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