Jan
Drewniak

Implemented a redesign of Wikipedia, developed multiple prototyping solutions that assisted design research and improved end-user adoption, helped adopt Vue.js, wrote maintainable front-end code that scales to billions of daily page-views, lead the technical implementation of features within the redesign project and engaged team building through hiring, mentoring and onboarding efforts.

Notable projects

• Desktop Improvements Project - The first Wikipedia redesign in over a decade. Implemented new designs that improved the reading experience for a global audience. Worked to ensure the highest quality maintainable code, taking into account semantics, accessibility, performance, i18n, and progressive enhancement.

• Wikipedia mobile - The m.wikipedia.org site. Added features and maintained the mobile version of Wikipedia, which focuses on performance and simplicity. Added tools and features to enable editing Wikipedia on mobile devices.

• Wikipedia Popups extension - The tooltips on Wikipedia links. Implemented a Storybook.js instance to help provide a predictable development environment for a broad range of test-cases for this feature.

• www.wikipedia.org - Modernized and maintain the www.wikipedia.org page – the most multi-lingual page on the internet, displaying over 300 languages at once. Introducing version control and a build step to modernize the codebase, and built new search functionality that increased engagement on the page.

Focused on improving the apps sign-up process which included an explanation of public/private key encryption to end-users.

Worked on producing Drupal-based websites for clients such as the UK Labour Party and the World Economic Forum.

Designed and built the front-end of a web-based calendaring & scheduling system for shift-based employees.

Produced print and web advertising campaigns for a series of local clients, ranging from art galleries, colleges, and even churches.