Luke Chesser
Cofounder & Head Of Product at Unsplash
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLuke Chesser is a product-focused technology founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling creative platforms from Montreal, best known as Cofounder and Head of Product at Unsplash, acquired by Getty Images in 2021. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to the popular unsplash-js API wrapper and shipping backend enhancements like universal search and photo download endpoints—with strategic product leadership across multiple exits including Crew and Crew Collective & Café. Trained as a civil engineer at McGill, he brings a systems-thinking approach to product design and infrastructure trade-offs. Luke’s blend of developer-level contributions and repeat founding success underscores a knack for turning design-forward ideas into robust, widely used developer tools and consumer experiences.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Civil Engineering at McGill University
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unsplash/unsplash-js
Apr 2016 - Sep 2020
🤖 Official JavaScript wrapper for the Unsplash API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 6 reviews, 59 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the development of the Unsplash JavaScript wrapper, focusing on extending its API interaction capabilities. Their work involved adding new endpoints, specifically for photo statistics, pagination within collection methods, and universal search functionalities. The user refactored existing search methods and added a photo download method. They also removed deprecated methods and parameters, and refactored the code base.
javascriptunsplashphotosphotographyimages
lukechesser/Popular-UIs
Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
🎨 PSDs of Popular Web UIs reproduced for educational purposes.
Contributions:60 commits in 1 year
uisreacteducational-purposesreproduced
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