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Miki Lombardi

Software engineer & open-source contributor

Engineering, with curiosity.

I’m Miki, a Senior Software Engineer at Adobe. I build software, contribute to open source, and share what I learn along the way.

Original hand-coloured garden photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
The same photograph converted by Chromatique into the Nord palette.
OriginalNord palette
Chromatique — explore the palette studyOriginal / actual CLI output · Nord palette · no dithering

Photograph: Frances Benjamin Johnston / Library of Congress. Nord palette: Sven Greb.

A few things I’ve built, shaped, and shared.

ImageGoNord

An open-source tool for converting images into a chosen palette.

I co-authored ImageGoNord with Wabri, alongside the work of the Schrödinger Hat community.

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  1. ImageGoNord upload area beside Nord palette swatches and conversion options.

    The conversion interface: upload an image and choose palette options.

    ImageGoNord / Schrödinger Hat · interface capture, November 2026

    View full-size image: The conversion interface: upload an image and choose palette options.
  2. ImageGoNord’s introduction with links to more palettes and documentation.

    The live website’s introduction to palette conversion.

    ImageGoNord / Schrödinger Hat · interface capture, November 2026

    View full-size image: The live website’s introduction to palette conversion.
  3. Polar Night, Snow Storm, Frost and Aurora colour swatches above conversion settings.

    Palette groups and conversion settings. Open the full-size image to read the controls.

    ImageGoNord / Schrödinger Hat · interface detail, November 2026

    View full-size image: Palette groups and conversion settings. Open the full-size image to read the controls.

Supermarket waiting times

Archived project · 2020

A crowdsourced map of shop waiting times, built during lockdown.

I built the service and evolved it from a Raspberry Pi to regional VPS infrastructure as demand grew.

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  1. Architecture: GitHub Pages frontend, Flask and uWSGI backend, Redis geospatial lookup and expiring cache; hosting evolved from Raspberry Pi to regional VPS instances.

    Documented architecture, drawn from the preserved technical article. This is a diagram, not a historical screenshot.

    Miki Lombardi’s 2021 technical article · source-derived diagram, 2026

    View full-size image: Documented architecture, drawn from the preserved technical article. This is a diagram, not a historical screenshot.

Chromatique

In development

One colour engine, several ways to use it: a Rust core with a CLI, language bindings and creative-tool interfaces.

My work includes image analysis, image comparison and lightness-preserving palette selection.

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  1. Hand-coloured photograph of irises and trees along the West Potomac Park embankment.

    Original input: Irises along the embankment, West Potomac Park, 1921.

    Frances Benjamin Johnston / Library of Congress · no known restrictions on publication

    View full-size image: Original input: Irises along the embankment, West Potomac Park, 1921.
  2. The same garden photograph mapped to the sixteen colours of the Nord palette.

    Actual Chromatique CLI output: Nord palette, OKLab, CPU, no dithering.

    Chromatique 0.2.0 · source photograph: Frances Benjamin Johnston / Library of Congress; Nord palette: Sven Greb

    View full-size image: Actual Chromatique CLI output: Nord palette, OKLab, CPU, no dithering.
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