Luke Pacholski
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Pacholski is a User Experience Lead with 13 years of professional experience and a 10-year background in graphic and web design, currently driving UX at ActiveState from Vancouver. He blends artistic illustration skills with front-end engineering—taking concepts from sketch to accessible, standards-compliant HTML, CSS and interactive JavaScript. Luke has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Mozilla’s Thimble and Brackets and enhanced the playful CSS Diner game with UI features and responsive animations. His work spans brand identity, product UI, and hands-on usability research, including user observation sessions that directly inform prioritized design improvements. Colleagues rely on him to marry visual craft with practical implementation, shipping polished interfaces that scale across web and mobile contexts.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Communication Design, Communication Design at Emily Carr University of Art and DesignBachelors, Bachelors at Simon Fraser University
Polish
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
lessc10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
theming9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flukeout/css-diner
Feb 2014 - Nov 2018
CSS Diner
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 47 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the front-end development of the CSS Diner game. They implemented new features, such as tooltips and outline highlighting for hovered elements. The user's work included modifying CSS files (style.css) to alter the appearance of the game elements, including adding new visual elements such as a fancy plate and making responsive animation updates. They also made changes to the game's Javascript (restaurant.js) to add interactive features and markup.
css
mozilla/brackets
Aug 2015 - Dec 2017
An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 91 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Brackets code editor project. Their contributions included styling adjustments for the mobile preview and fixing related Safari issues. They also worked on theming updates, specifically implementing and adjusting both light and dark themes. Additionally, the user implemented and refined the full-screen preview mode, further enhancing the user interface.
cssjavascripthtml-javascripteditorcode-editor
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