Luc Mcgrady
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuc Mcgrady is a software engineer with five years of hands-on experience building front-end web experiences and contributing to notable open-source projects. Based in England, he graduated with First Class honors in Software Engineering from the University of Central Lancashire and spent time as a frontend developer creating a client-facing healthcare artwork platform. Beyond commercial work, he’s an active full‑stack contributor to the popular Anki project, implementing UI improvements like keyboard shortcuts and a "copy template as markdown" feature, as well as back-end FSRS optimizations. He combines a lifelong passion for programming with practical experience across Qt frontends, web components, and backend date/revlog logic. Colleagues describe him as quietly focused and detail-oriented, able to move between UX polish and algorithmic backend tweaks.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Hons Degree-First Class, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Hons Degree-First Class at University of Central Lancashire
Github Skills (9)
qt10
anki10
typescript-types9
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
typescript9
rust9
typescripts9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ankitects/anki
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Anki's shared backend and web components, and the Qt frontend
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 19 PRs, 61 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luc contributed significantly to the Anki project by implementing and improving features across the frontend and backend. They added keyboard shortcuts, made changes to the simulator graph, and developed a "copy template as markdown" feature within the Qt frontend. They also worked on backend features related to FSRS optimization, including date handling and revlog filtering, and made adjustments to the FTL files.
desktopankicomputers
Luc-Mcgrady/Anki-Search-Stats-Extended
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:23 releases, 13 reviews, 49 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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