Jan Drewniak
Senior UX Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Drewniak is a Senior UX Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and implementing front-end experiences that scale to billions of daily pageviews. At the Wikimedia Foundation he led technical implementation of Wikipedia’s first major desktop redesign in a decade, modernized the multilingual www.wikipedia.org experience, and helped adopt Vue.js and Storybook to improve developer workflows. His work spans accessible, internationalized UI, performance-focused mobile features, and prototyping that directly informed design research and increased engagement. He contributes to high-profile open source projects like MediaWiki, improving mobile UX for one of the web’s most visited platforms. Based in Cambridge, Ontario, Jan combines artisanal attention to visuals and interaction details with pragmatic engineering for large-scale, multilingual products.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Advertising Art Direction, Bachelor, Advertising Art Direction at OCAD University
Github Skills (8)
css10
ux-design10
mediawiki10
javascript10
lessc10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
php9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jan focused on improving the mobile user experience within the MediaWiki platform, primarily by addressing UI/UX issues related to the recent changes (rcfilters) and watchlist features. Their work included mobile cleanup of rcfilters, moving scroll logic, removing highlighting, and improving the layout of the watchlist top section. The user also made contributions to the temporary account banner and related styles.
collaborative-editingmediawikiphpwikiwikipedia
jandre3000/wikipedia-vue-prototype
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Cloning Wikipedia with Vue and some APIs
Contributions:38 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
vue
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