Dominic McPhee
Frontend Developer at headphones.com
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDominic Mcphee is a front-end engineering leader and founder in Ottawa with 13 years of experience building design systems, UX-focused interfaces, and high-performing teams. As Co-founder and CTO of Lantern Accounts and co-founder of Cicada Sound, he pairs hands-on CSS/JS craftsmanship with product and company-building experience. He spent several years at Shopify as a Senior Staff Front End Developer and active contributor to the widely used Polaris design system, improving component documentation, accessibility (for example removing spinners from disabled number inputs), and overall maintainability. Prior roles include Head of Development at Headphones.com and web development at the Bank of Canada, and he brings a habit of obsessing over small UX and accessibility details that deliver outsized product and developer experience gains.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
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system-design10
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carbon-design-system10
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react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
javascripts9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Apr 2017 - Nov 2018
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 56 reviews, 237 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily contributed to the Shopify Polaris design system by fixing issues and improving component documentation. Their work included fixing static HTML page examples, adding separators to pages, and modifying the codebase to improve the user experience. The user also addressed accessibility and functionality issues by removing spinners from disabled number inputs and updating the Popover component. Further, the user upgraded dependencies and refactored code, leading to improvements in code quality and maintainability.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
dfmcphee/simple-proxy
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
macosos-xproxy
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