Zack K
Product & Community Lead at Mathesar Foundation
United States
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Top SchoolZack K is a senior software engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building community-focused open source tools and developer ecosystems. He led the Openverse (formerly CC Search) project at Automattic, coordinating a distributed team to maintain a large-scale open search platform for Creative Commons content. Comfortable across the front end and product-facing roles, he has a strong track record improving UI accessibility and usability in TypeScript projects—examples include accessibility and UX refinements to a popular CSS Grid generator and front-end work on Creative Commons sites. More recently he’s shifted into product and community leadership at Mathesar Foundation while co-founding The Event Atlas, blending hands-on engineering with DevRel and product strategy. His background in English and long history of open-source contributions gives him a rare mix of technical craft, attention to user-facing copy/UX, and community-first product instincts.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, English at Lesley UniversityGeneral Studies, General Studies at Community College of Rhode Island
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Github Skills (18)
accessibility10
javascript10
component-development10
css10
grid-layout10
front-end-development10
vue10
html10
vue-jsx10
lektor8
opengraph7
creative-commons6
sorting6
react6
preact6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
cc-archive/cccatalog-frontend
Dec 2018 - May 2021
[PROJECT TRANSFERRED] CC Search is a search tool for CC-licensed and public domain content across the internet.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 24 reviews, 436 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily focused on developing and refactoring front-end components. They extracted copy buttons into a reusable component, implemented text feedback for copy success, and refactored conditional statements in the code. Additional contributions include fixing whitespace issues and working on the creation of the meta-search modal with associated components.
licensedpublic-domainsearch-tooldiscontinuedsearch-engine
sdras/cssgridgenerator
May 2019 - Jun 2019
🧮 Generate basic CSS Grid code to make dynamic layouts!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Zack focused on enhancing the user interface and accessibility of the CSS Grid generator. They implemented features like closing the modal via the wrapper click and Esc key, autofocusing on the copy button, and adding aria-live functionality for improved screen reader support. Furthermore, the user optimized the modal's appearance by reducing mobile padding and adding vertical overflow scrolling, while also incorporating a focus trap. These changes aimed to improve usability and accessibility within the application.
grid-systemcss-gridgrid-layoutlayoutscss
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