Dexter Lesaca
Founder at Dawn Treader Digital
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDexter Lesaca is a UX Engineer and founder based in Seattle with 11 years building design systems and accessible web experiences for enterprises including Microsoft, IBM, Alaska Airlines, and ConsenSys. He specializes in web components and design-driven front-end architecture—contributing to Microsoft’s FAST repository by implementing and hardening core components like tabs, accordions, avatars and accessibility fixes. Comfortable in both code and design, he moves fluidly between TypeScript, React/Vue/Next.js and tools like Figma and Sketch, and has led teams delivering Lightning Web Component libraries and Salesforce B2B commerce UIs. Dexter also teaches and prototypes to bridge design thinking and engineering, having built developer onboarding demos and CLI safeguards that improved web component adoption. Now leading Dawn Treader Digital, he applies a mission-driven lens to help faith-based organizations own their presence on the web while continuing to champion accessible, component-first interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web Design, Web Design at Seattle Central CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at Edmonds CollegeFront-End UX Design & Development Accelerator Computer Science, Front-End UX Design & Development Accelerator Computer Science at Code Fellows
English
Github Skills (15)
accessibility10
html10
css10
webaccess10
typescript10
web-components10
typescripts10
component-library10
frontend10
web-frontend10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
animate4
animation4
react3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fast
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 18 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dexter's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the user interface and functionality of the `microsoft/fast` repository. They focused on implementing and refining web components, particularly the skeleton, accordion-item, tab, and avatar components. The commits involve adding new features, improving existing styles, addressing accessibility issues, and making the components more user-friendly. They also added default slotted content functionality to buttons and anchors.
litweb-componentsadaptivedevelopment-toolsweb-components-schemas
dlesaca/settings-manager
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 11 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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