Lukas Oppermann
Staff Systems Designer at veare - User Experience & Interface Design
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Oppermann is a Staff Systems Designer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience crafting and scaling design systems across enterprise and product teams. He blends hands-on UI/front-end development with strategic design leadership, having driven design-token initiatives and system-wide tooling at GitHub, Deutsche Telekom and RTL+. Lukas is passionate about simplifying complex problems through disciplined processes—design sprints, research and cross-functional teams—while recognising that simplicity in outcome often requires sophisticated work behind the scenes. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably Figma plugins and a design-tokens exporter used with Amazon Style Dictionary) and pairs that technical fluency with classroom teaching as a longtime lecturer. Known for building team culture and DesignOps practices, he mentors designers to ship production-ready systems and components. Outside work he’s fueled by great coffee, cats, and the joy of solving problems he’s never seen before.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design (Interface & Interaction), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design (Interface & Interaction) at BTK University of Art and Design
German, English
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
ios10
design-tokens10
drag-and-drop10
typescript10
drag10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
js10
swift10
typescripts10
vanilla-javascript10
react10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
lukasoppermann/design-tokens
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
🎨 Figma plugin to export design tokens to json in an amazon style dictionary compatible format.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:49 releases, 33 reviews, 356 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lukas contributed to a Figma plugin for exporting design tokens to JSON in a compatible format for Amazon Style Dictionary. Their commits focused on implementing new UI elements, including a file export setting window, and enabling customization of the name conversion and compression of the generated JSON file. They also fixed issues within the UI and introduced a React-based UI for improved user experience.
dictionaryto-jsonamazon-style-dictionaryamazon-styleexport
lukasoppermann/design-token-transformer
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Base repo to transform json design tokens from the figma design token plugin via amazon style dictionary.
Role in this project:UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:2 releases, 43 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Lukas appears to be primarily involved in UI design and implementation within the repository. Their initial commit set up a base for the project, followed by subsequent commits that generated design tokens, including colors, sizes, and font styles, specifically for iOS. This suggests a focus on translating design specifications into code for the iOS platform, which involved creating Swift files and CSS/LESS files to be used in the project. The user is also responsible for including tests, along with the ability to create custom transformers for the project.
dictionaryamazon-style-dictionaryamazon-styletokenstransform
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