Rowan Hogan
Engineering Manager at The Lookout Way
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolRowan Hogan is an engineering manager and seasoned front-end developer from Queensland with 12 years building user-focused web experiences. Currently leading engineering at The Lookout Way after senior roles at Blackbaud Pacific and everydayhero, he blends design sensibility with hands-on front-end implementation. Rowan has a strong background in UX/UI and responsive design dating back to lead design roles and early freelance work, and he still contributes to prominent open-source mapping projects like OpenStreetMap iD and Leaflet—adding keyboard shortcuts, minimap toggles, and documentation/typography improvements. He’s comfortable bridging product, design and engineering, turning visual concepts into accessible, performant interfaces. Notably, his contributions to widely used mapping libraries show a commitment to improving developer-facing docs and interactive UX at scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Creative Industries Communication/Interaction Design, Bachelor of Creative Industries Communication/Interaction Design at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
editors10
maps10
responsive-design10
javascript10
ui-design10
editor10
leaflet10
d3js9
mappings9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 days
Contributions summary:Rowan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Leaflet documentation and website. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience. This included implementing code block styles, updating the favicon, applying site-wide typography improvements, adding a table of contents menu for API pages, and making the site responsive for mobile and tablet devices. They also updated homepage logos and capped the max-width of youtube videos.
javascriptmobileleaflet
openstreetmap/iD
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
🆔 The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Rowan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and adding new features to the OpenStreetMap editor. They implemented keyboard shortcuts for viewport panning and zoom controls, improving user interaction. Their contributions also included adding a minimap toggle feature to the background menu and fixing related CSS issues. The user also updated existing UI elements, as seen in the commits.
javascriptopenstreetmapd3editormapping
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