Lucas Wiener
CTO & Co-founder at Modelup
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Wiener is a Stockholm-based CTO and co-founder with 13 years of experience building robust, user-focused web applications and 3D configurators for e-commerce. He created the widely used element-resize-detector JavaScript library (350M+ npm downloads) and has published research on modular responsive web architecture, reflecting both practical impact and academic rigor. Lucas has led frontend and full-stack efforts at scale—running GraphQL backends, AWS infrastructure, and CMS integrations for high-traffic media and enterprise apps. He favors pragmatic architecture, automated testing, and functional-programming techniques to keep large projects maintainable as they grow. His open-source work includes accessibility and UX improvements for complex responsive tables and resilient cross-browser resize handling. That blend of product-minded engineering, research, and prolific OSS contribution helps him turn tricky UI and performance problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
uid10
dom-manipulation10
responsive-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
event-handling10
ui-design10
html9
css9
user-interface9
ux-design9
bootstra8
bootstrap8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wnr/element-resize-detector
Jan 2015 - Dec 2021
Optimized cross-browser resize listener for elements.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:305 commits, 34 PRs, 150 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Lucas's contributions primarily focused on the implementation and refinement of the user interface for an element resizing detector library. They introduced new example features, updated existing ones to use jQuery, and fixed existing issues related to element styling and interactions. Their work included adding functionalities like enabling the resizing of the example box through click interactions and ensuring the styles for elements are kept consistent when the resize events occur, making the code more resilient.
cross-browserbrowserelementsjavascriptlistener
nadangergeo/RWD-Table-Patterns
Apr 2014 - May 2014
This is an awesome solution for responsive tables with complex data.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on enhancing the responsiveness and user interface of the responsive table. They implemented features such as sticky table headers, and a display-all button. The user also worked on UI/UX improvements like adding focus functionality to table rows. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and accessibility of the responsive tables.
responsive
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