Lachlan Campbell
Design Engineer at Watershed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLachlan Campbell is a Design Engineer with 12 years of experience building polished front-end experiences and design systems, currently leading design engineering at Watershed where they helped shape branding, the web presence, and product design at a company now managing ~2% of global carbon emissions. They blend hands-on UI work—contributions to popular open-source projects like Theme UI and Hack Club—with product thinking, shipping components, accessibility fixes, and dark-mode support. Comfortable across full-stack and UI-focused repos, Lachlan has a track record of stabilizing UX (e.g., DiffusionBee) and modernizing CSS tooling (cxs-css, cssstats). They scale design systems from logo to library while keeping developer ergonomics in mind, and bring a community-minded background as former Head of Storytelling at Hack Club and organizer of flagship student hackathons.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
electron10
component-development10
css-in-js10
css10
responsive-design10
nextjs10
theme-ui10
ui-design10
uid10
component-library10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
vue10
html10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
hackclub/hackclub
Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
🌎 Hack Club is a worldwide community of high school hackers. We make things. We help one another. We have fun.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 172 commits, 115 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lachlan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, focusing on web component workshops and demo improvements. Their work involved reformatting code, updating links, and applying code style using Prettier. They also modified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, reflecting a hands-on approach to enhancing the visual elements and structure of the project's front-end components, including refactoring existing code for consistency.
curriculumreactworldwidejavascriptnonprofits
hackclub/site
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
🌈 The new, new Hack Club website (uses Next.js & Theme UI).
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 163 commits, 86 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Lachlan primarily focused on front-end development for the Hack Club site repository. Their commits introduced the beginnings of a new homepage, including the implementation of UI components and styling using the Theme UI library. They also made adjustments to the application's structure and theme, along with implementing a few pages to contribute to the site's content.
next-jsreacthackclubnextjstheme-ui
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