Jan Miksovsky
Software Architect at Web Origami
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJan Miksovsky is a software architect and UX-driven product leader with 16 years of experience building web UI platforms and founding companies that rethink component-based interfaces. He co-founded Cozi and Component Kitchen (creator of the Elix open-source UI component library) and later architected core UI elements for Salesforce, bridging design, engineering, and web standards efforts. His background at Microsoft spans foundational UI work from early email clients to Windows Aero, demonstrating a long-standing focus on usable, scalable interfaces. Jan writes and teaches about UI design and development, holds multiple software patents, and runs Web Origami, a practice focused on advancing component-driven UX. Based in Seattle and fluent in both design and code, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with deep platform-level experience that often surfaces in standards and browser discussions. An unexpected through-line in his career is a consistent emphasis on the economics of reuse—how well-crafted components reduce friction and unlock innovation across products and companies.
16 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Japanese at Waseda UniversityB.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Cornell UniversityChoate Rosemary Hall
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (119)
shadow-dom10
javascript10
storage10
shadow10
typescript10
css10
user-interface10
web-components10
literals10
type-check9
formatter9
polymer9
yaml9
superset9
lit-html9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JanMiksovsky/elix.org
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:88 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 1 year
elixirweb-site
elix/react-example
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
Demonstrates use of an Elix web component in a React application
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
reactjsreactweb-component
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