Lucas Cherkewski
Advisor at Government of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLucas Cherkewski is an advisor and seasoned web developer with 14 years of experience designing and implementing user-focused digital solutions across front-end and back-end stacks. He has led independent projects and client engagements, shipping responsive interfaces (HTML/CSS/JS/React) and server-side work in PHP, Node.js, Laravel and WordPress while adapting to diverse build and deployment environments. At the Government of Canada and the Canadian Digital Service he bridged policy and technical implementation, bringing practical, research-driven design to public-facing services. An active open-source contributor, he improved the front-end related-posts module in Automattic’s high-profile Jetpack and helped localize privacy documentation for Canada’s COVID Alert app. He pairs hands-on coding with user research and clear communication, having taught and distilled programming concepts for beginners. Based in Ottawa, he combines cross-disciplinary thinking from a humanities background with technical craft to deliver clear, accessible digital experiences.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, History and Political Science, Bachelor’s Degree, History and Political Science at University of Ottawa
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
french10
francais10
javascript10
wordpress10
css10
localization10
front-end-development10
plugin9
documentation9
react8
php8
android7
android-developer7
android-developers7
co6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cds-snc/covid-alert-app
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Exposure notification client application / Application client de notification d'exposition
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Lucas's contributions primarily revolve around updating and modifying the privacy policy documentation for the COVID Alert application. These updates involve translating the privacy policy into French, adding contact information, and making adjustments to reflect the Android platform's specifics. The user also addresses various corrections and refinements to the French version of the privacy statement. The work is focused on ensuring the policy is accurate, complete, and accessible in multiple languages.
exposure-notificationnotificationsnotificationexposureexposition
Automattic/jetpack
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the "Related Posts" module, implementing features and styling for the front-end display. Their work involved passing post date to front end, changing the display of the post date and context on the front end. Additionally, the user modified the related-posts.css file to align the date styling with the context and added padding to the `.featured` class.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
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