Karolina Szczur

Karolina Szczur

Co-founder and Designer in Australia, She/her

About

I’m a generalist with over 16 years of experience designing and building for the web. I’ve always been an active participant in the community: I organised over 15 industry-leading conferences, advised and spoken at dozens, pushing for more inclusive communities.

Now, I’m running a self-funded and profitable company, Calibre, where I lead design, product and communications. While doing so, I’m also consciously striving to foster a better, more sustainable way to work. ✨

Projects

Ongoing

Each month, I write a summary of new features, product improvements and upcoming releases in Calibre.

Ongoing

Every two weeks, I send a newsletter with web performance and user experience news, tools, case studies resources.

2022

Often it’s not easy to find which areas of your sites and applications need page speed improvements. I designed the Pages Leaderboard to make it easy to uncover both fast and poor performing pages.

2021

Because Calibre is a tool for teams and collaboration across the entire organisation is critical for succeeding in improving page speed and UX, we built Teams. With Teams, you can view, share and set up reporting in a way that works best for your company.

2021

Because understanding your speed (and its impact on UX) isn’t easy or accessible, I designed a simple, shareable report so builders and site owners can check if they pass Core Web Vitals page speed benchmarks.

2020

Fluctuation in measurements is inevitable in web performance. I designed Budgets to help set meaningful goals based on recommended thresholds and alerting, so teams can address regressions as they happen and celebrate wins.

Side Projects

2017

I co-curated the JSConf EU programme and advised on inclusion policies for the event.

2016

JSConf and CSSConf Australia were a part of a worldwide event family, hosting thousands of people interested in the web platform, front-end development, design and JavaScript engineering.

2014

As a part of a bigger web development-oriented event, I ran a one-day conference for designers and front-end developers in Oakland, CA.

Work Experience

2017 — Now
2018 — 2019
2016 — 2017
Melbourne, Australia
2013 — 2015
2012 — 2013
Product Designer at Nodejitsu
Remote
2010 — 2012
2010 — 2011
2010 — 2010
Front-end Developer at AdTaily
Kraków, Poland

Speaking

Education

2007 — 2012
Bachelor’s Degree of Human Computer Interaction at Jagiellonian University
Kraków, Poland

Contact

GitHub
LinkedIn

Teams

Current
Calibre