Reece Lucas
Principal Software Engineer At PistonHeads
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolReece Lucas is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building user-centric web products and component libraries that scale across teams. He has delivered high-impact projects for organisations from the BBC and Deloitte Digital to global banks and trading firms, improving conversion, performance, and time-to-interactive through pragmatic refactors and measurable UX improvements. A hands-on engineering leader, Reece blends front-end craftsmanship (React, Vue, Svelte) with cross-functional coaching to up-skill teams and embed modern practices. He’s comfortable owning delivery end-to-end—from design collaboration and prototyping to production support—and has a track record of creating reusable tooling adopted by hundreds of engineers. Notably, his background in physiological science and earlier UX research work gives him a distinctive user-first perspective that informs technical decisions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physiological Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physiological Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (35)
hook10
react-hooks10
keyboard-shortcuts10
hotkeys10
dialog9
graph9
react-datepicker9
renderer8
datepicker8
react8
html5-video8
internationalization8
javascript8
accessibility8
rendering8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reecelucas/react-use-hotkeys
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
React hook for creating simple keyboard shortcuts
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 36 commits in 3 years 6 months
keyboard-shortcutsreactreactjshookhotkeys
reecelucas/portfolio-2017
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:205 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
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