Chris Roper
UX Director at Indeed
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorChris Roper is a UX Director based in Sydney with 11 years of product-focused experience and a 15-year background in UX/UI and front-end engineering. He has a proven track record scaling teams and design engineering orgs—from building BigCommerce’s and Finder’s design systems to growing Indeed’s APAC design engineering team and leading cross-functional UX teams for Job Seeker products. A pragmatic builder who still ships code, he contributed front-end improvements to BigCommerce’s Cornerstone theme, simplifying CSS and refactoring core templates and components. Chris blends hands-on prototyping and production experiments with people leadership, mentoring designers, developers, and researchers to deliver measurable UX outcomes. Outside work he’s a weightlifter and gamer with an unexpected childhood talent for remembering song lyrics, which hints at a mix of discipline and curiosity he brings to product problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
handlebars10
ui-design9
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
bigcommerce/cornerstone
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:353 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on front-end development within the BigCommerce Cornerstone theme. Their contributions involved cleaning up and removing existing CSS and simplifying the base layout structure. They also worked on implementing and styling various form elements like inputs, textareas, and selects. The user updated and finalized base and layout templates while refactoring the UI components and styles for cart, category, and blog page templates.
bigcommerceecommercecornerstone
bigcommerce/sass-style-guide
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Sass coding guidelines for BigCommerce themes
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
sassbigcommercemixinscsscss-transitions
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