Luke Bennett
Developer at Luke Bennett
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolLuke Bennett is a front-end developer and designer with a decade of experience crafting design systems and polished UI components from New South Wales, Australia. Currently at Thinkmill and running a freelance studio, he blends production work with client-facing design sensibilities to ship maintainable, accessible front-end solutions. He’s an active open-source contributor—known for enhancements to the popular react-select library, adding Storybook examples and Tailwind integration to improve developer experience. Comfortable refactoring examples to modern hooks and fixing tricky UI bugs, he focuses on practical developer-first documentation alongside visual polish. His background running a small business gives him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering and client collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Hastings secondary college Port Macquarie
Stackoverflow
79reputation
1kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
storybook10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
react10
tailwindcss9
json6
nextjs6
gatsby6
shopify6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JedWatson/react-select
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
The Select Component for React.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 44 commits, 63 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the React-Select library, focusing on UI component enhancements and bug fixes. Their work included addressing a width bug in the animated multi-select component and refactoring an example to use hooks. Furthermore, the user added basic Storybook examples, then enhanced the Storybook with additional examples, and a Tailwind CSS integration. The user also updated documentation and examples, demonstrating a focus on improving developer experience.
reactreact-jsmulti-selectreact-selectreactjs
phiranno-designs/growersmarket.net.au
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Website for Growers Market
Contributions:6 reviews, 42 PRs, 204 pushes in 5 months
reactmarket
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