Lucas Besen
Teaching Assistant Instructor at Centre for Teaching and Learning - Western University
London, Canada
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Top SchoolLucas Besen is an interdisciplinary educator and researcher with nine years of experience combining social anthropology, accessibility design, and front-end development. With a PhD and postdoc in Social Anthropology, he investigates how gender and sexual identities become juridical and state issues while also coordinating international research on disability policy with UCL. At Western University he designs accessible learning modules, trains teaching assistants, and manages archiving and multimedia accessibility to meet AODA and UDL standards. Technically fluent in front-end work, he has contributed TypeScript migrations and UX improvements to notable open-source projects like a React drag-and-drop email editor and localized Microsoft’s TypeScript website for Portuguese speakers. Comfortable managing multidisciplinary teams across time zones, he brings a rare mix of rigorous ethnographic research, pedagogy, and practical software skills to projects that bridge academia, public policy, and inclusive technology.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health Information/Medical Records Administration/Administrator, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health Information/Medical Records Administration/Administrator at Western UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Social Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Social Anthropology at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulMaster of Arts - MA, Social Anthropology, Master of Arts - MA, Social Anthropology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react-components10
translation10
typescript10
react-component10
localization10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
builder-pattern9
drag-and-drop9
builder-io9
documentation9
builders9
e-mail6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unlayer/react-email-editor
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Drag-n-Drop Email Editor Component for React.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on enhancing the React-based email editor component. Their contributions include adding the ability to pass a custom editorId, enforcing HTTPS for script loading, and improving the codebase's structure. They also migrated the project to TypeScript, refactoring both the core editor component and the demo application to leverage the benefits of static typing. Further improvements include exposing add event listener, removing event listener, and export image functions, also fixing merge tags types.
drag-n-dropemail-editorreact-jsemail-builderreactjs
microsoft/TypeScript-Website
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
The Website and web infrastructure for learning TypeScript
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lucas contributed to the `microsoft/typescript-website` repository by translating TypeScript documentation examples to Portuguese (PT-BR). Their work involved translating code examples and explanatory text within the "packages/playground-examples/copy/pt" directory, focusing on features introduced in TypeScript versions 3.7 and 3.8. They also improved the wording of existing translations. This focused on localizing the website content for Portuguese-speaking users, improving the usability and reach of the TypeScript documentation.
typescriptinfrastructurelearning-typescript
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