Darek Luksza
Founder & Developer at HabitChallenge
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDarek Luksza is a founder and mobile engineer with 14+ years of shipping production apps, currently building e-commerce retail experiences for Premier League clubs and Onefootball using Flutter and React Native/Expo. He founded HabitChallenge (264k+ installs) and rewrote it from React Native to Flutter, demonstrating practical migration and cross-platform expertise. A long-time open-source contributor and former Eclipse EGit/JGit committer, Darek has 348 Gerrit contributions and significant fixes to popular projects like react-native-firebase’s Android notifications. He combines hands-on engineering with product sensibility—building personalization, third-party API integrations and custom merchandise flows—while leveraging AI tools like Claude Code to amplify, not replace, engineering judgment. Based in London, he is open to interesting mobile, Elixir, or Rust contracts and brings rare depth across mobile, backend plugins, and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at West Pomeranian University of Technology in SzczecinComputer Science, Computer Science at Politechnika Koszalińska
Polish, English, German
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Github Skills (20)
react-native10
android-sdk10
java10
javas10
notification10
android10
javascript9
cm8
fc8
push-notifications8
apple-push-notifications8
react7
xml6
php6
mod-rewrite6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
invertase/react-native-firebase
May 2018 - Jul 2018
🔥 A well-tested feature-rich modular Firebase implementation for React Native. Supports both iOS & Android platforms for all Firebase services.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Darek primarily contributed to the Android implementation of the React Native Firebase library. They fixed a `ClassCastException` in the notification scheduling logic and added APIs to delete notification channels and channel groups. They also implemented background action handling for Android notifications by adding a broadcast receiver, a service, and updating related types, and handling repeating notification intervals. The user also addressed scheduling issues to correctly handle and warn about past dates.
web-sdkfeature-richreact-hooksios-androidremote-config
dluksza/gerrit-retriggerme
May 2014 - May 2019
Retrigger Jenkins/Hudson verifiaction job directly from Gerrit Web UI
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years
jenkinsjenkins-pluginweb-uijobgerrit
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