Samuel Luescher
UX Engineer at Google DeepMind
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Luescher is a UX engineer and full-stack developer with 16 years of experience blending design sensibility and robust backend engineering, currently shaping interaction at Google DeepMind. Trained at the MIT Media Lab and the Basel School of Design, he brings a rare combination of tangible computing, visual communication, and large-scale web visualization expertise. His work spans web, mobile, and desktop systems and includes open-source contributions to major Django projects (django-cms, django-mptt) and a form-designer tool that improved internationalization and multi-form workflows. At MIT and in industry he built scalable in-browser visualizations for millions of geospatial readings and led product-facing UX at Formlabs. He has a track record of shipping practical tools—often improving admin and developer workflows—and is equally comfortable soldering hardware prototypes as iterating on backend models. Based in Zurich, he quietly bridges research-grade experimentation with production-quality software.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Designer FH Visual Communication, Dipl. Designer FH Visual Communication at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNWMaster of Science (MSc) Media Arts and Sciences, Master of Science (MSc) Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGuest semester Design and Visual Communication, Guest semester Design and Visual Communication at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
form-design10
cms10
webpages10
python10
back-end-development10
web-content10
django10
mptt10
template-tags9
ember-i18n8
i18n-js8
html8
documentation8
rails-i18n8
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samluescher/django-form-designer
Jan 2010 - Aug 2014
A Django admin app with a GUI to create complex forms without any programming skills; complete with logging, validation, and redirects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Django form designer application. Their commits focused on form binding, i18n edits (internationalization), and enabling multiple forms per page. They also addressed issues related to CSV output encoding, CMS plugin integration, and initial values, indicating a focus on improving the application's core functionality, fixing bugs, and enhancing user experience. Several updates to the model and template files were made as well.
pythonadminvalidationdjango-rest-frameworkdjango
django-cms/django-cms
Jan 2010 - Mar 2015
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Django CMS framework. Their contributions included addressing issues related to plugin handling, such as correcting how plugins are added and ensuring correct rendering of plugins. They also worked on improving the user interface for plugin management and implemented changes in the template structure and rendering of plugins.
cmspythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-cms
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