Hi I'm Lukas!

I'm a Senior Full-Stack Developer with over 6 years of experience building cloud-based web applications and B2B platforms. I have a strong focus on backend development with Node.js, where I’ve created scalable, secure systems and streamlined workflows for clients.

My experience also includes frontend development with React, VueJS, and Angular.

I enjoy solving complex problems and delivering high-quality solutions in agile environments.

Projects

Some of the projects I've worked on

Also Known For

I created this website for myself after frequently searching for the voices behind animated movie characters, trying to figure out where I recognized them from and what other roles they've played. My goal was to make it easy to find that information and share it with friends.

Built with a NuxtJS (Vue.js SSR) front-end utilizing Vuex, connecting to the TMDB RESTful API for images and data

Repo Live Site

E-Commerce Management App

An eCommerce management platform designed to handle products, orders, collections, customers, and a customer rewards program.

Connected to Firebase backend for database, authentication, security, and deployment

Live Site

Polly Glot

Polly Glot is a powerful translation app that allows users to effortlessly translate text into French, Spanish, or Japanese. Powered by OpenAI's advanced translation capabilities, Polly Glot provides accurate and reliable translations for a wide range of purposes.

Repo Live Site

COVID-19 Food Finder App

Award-winning iOS app aimed at connecting economically disadvantaged students with meal programs offered by schools in the United States, fostering improved accessibility to essential nutritional resources.

Recipient of the SAP Innovation Awards 2021 in the Cloud Genius category.

Integrates with SAP OData service through SAP Business Technology Platform to consume school offering data.

iOS app providing information on over 123,000 schools offering meals to families and students during the COVID-19 crisis.

Repo Blog Post

VIP Assignment

Designed and developed web app to share assignments of pre-construction condo suites listed by real-estate company

Integrates with Google Maps to display locations of listings and directly connects real estate agents to interested clients

All content is customizable through accompanying content management portal

Build in React using Redux, hosted with Firebase

Live Site

Mortgage Calculator

Calculates a mortgage's regular payment, principal vs interest split, totals and more.

Built in VueJs including a Jest unit test suite

Repo Live Site

Experience

Simplista

Software Developer

2022 - Present

Third developer with a backend focus of cloud-based B2B product listing platform, streamlining onboarding process for products across renowned retailers such as Sobeys and Pet Valu.
Independently designed and deployed user registration workflow leveraging Node and Active Directory, facilitating seamless onboarding for over 400 users securely.
Employed Python and machine learning to automate item categorization within product data, achieving a model with a 80% accuracy rate and eliminating manual classification efforts.
Engineered a robust testing strategy for node microservices, leveraging Jest and seamlessly integrating with GitHub Actions to ensure code stability, functionality, and reliability.
Enhanced nutritional data recognition accuracy from 60% to 90% by leveraging Azure AI Vision (OCR) and utilizing ChatGPT for data conversion.
Revamped users RESTful API with industry best practices, streamlining functionality by consolidating 4 redundant endpoints.

GetQuorum

Full-Stack Developer

2021 - 2022

Collaborated in an agile environment to enhance internal and customer-facing platforms for managing and hosting condo AGMs, utilizing VueJS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and Docker.
Full-stack developer working with VueJS, NuxtJS, NodeJs, Express, AWS, PostgreSQL, and Docker.
Innovatively crafted live dashboard using NuxtJS (VueJS SSR) and web sockets, empowering team with real-time monitoring capabilities and heightened customer satisfaction.
Overhauled business invoicing system by implementing SQL refactoring and RESTful API enhancements, resulting in 80% reduction in fetch times.
Worked in a team to simplify the internal platform into a customer-facing self-service dashboard to allow for rapid scalability.

Clockwork Inc.

Front-End Developer Consultant

2017 - 2021

Designed and developed SAP iOS apps and web-based SAPUI5 (Fiori) applications for Clockwork's SAP Partnered clients.
Recipient of SAP Innovation Award 2021 in Cloud Genius Category for Covid-19 Food FinderiOS App
Created a time-sheetreporting app through NodeJS, MongoDB, React Native, and Swift for 50+ employees to efficiently report billable hours, saving the company over $1,000 of collective hours every week. Utilized Azure Active Directory to authenticate users and QuickBooks API to directly submit timesheets eliminating time-consuming tasks for accounting.
Designed and instructed courses on new technologies for clients to build future apps in-house, saving them the cost of outsourcing development. Constructed all course content, materials, demos, and step-by-step exercises. Directly led to additional advisory work afterward requested by trainees.

Education

University of Toronto

Honours Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2014 - 2019

Software Engineer | JavaScript, Node, Vue, React

Toronto