Joel Kesler
Staff Designer And Frontend Developer (UX Engineer) at Freelance
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolJoel Kesler is a Staff Designer and Frontend Developer (UX Engineer) with 12 years of experience blending product design and modern front-end engineering to migrate legacy apps, build design systems, and ship reusable Angular/Figma component libraries. Based in Saskatoon, he has led design systems, onboarding DX, and cross-team collaboration at Vendasta and now Constellation, where he champions Nx monorepo practices and clean API contracts. Joel pairs pragmatic engineering—creating battle-tested editors and automation UIs—with a designer’s eye for scalable UI patterns and documentation. He’s known for mentoring teams, automating developer setup (a script once featured on Hacker News), and turning complex workflows into polished, maintainable front-end products. Outside work he refuels curiosity through rock-climbing, kayaking and creative pastimes like LEGO and photography, which inform his iterative, user-focused approach.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University
English
Stackoverflow
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18kreached
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Github Skills (121)
infrastructure10
extensible10
javascript10
yarn-workspaces10
setup-wizard10
monorepo10
cli10
angular10
build-system10
nrwl-nx10
nodejs10
cypress10
workspaces10
material-design10
react10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vendasta/setup-new-computer-script
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:13 reviews, 35 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 3 months
setup-wizardinstallationsetup-script
joelkesler/components
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
materialmaterial-design-componentsinfrastructurecomponents-designmaterial-design
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