Alex Sutcliffe
Staff Developer at Slack
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Sutcliffe is a Staff Developer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently leading frontend efforts at Slack after a senior frontend tenure at Shopify. He designs complex SPA/PWA architectures using React, TypeScript, GraphQL and Node.js, and pairs that with build and infra expertise in Webpack/ESBuild, Terraform and AWS. Alex has a strong grounding in computer science and UX methodologies, and consistently improves developer ergonomics and performance through tooling and pragmatic engineering. He’s contributed to Shopify’s widely used Polaris design system, adding nuanced UI behaviors like animated progress bars and compact page headers. Based in Vancouver, he brings a collaborative, team-building approach shaped by agile practices and cross-disciplinary roles spanning Ruby, C#, and PHP. An uncommon strength is his blend of production-facing UI craftsmanship with infrastructure-level optimizations that keep large-scale web experiences fast and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at University of BirminghamMaster of Publishing Publishing, Master of Publishing Publishing at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
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:15 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of UI components within the Polaris design system. Their work included adding features like hover state for data table rows, and adding an animated prop to the progress bar component. The user also made updates to the Filters component, focusing on the visibility of the filter button. They also added a compactTitle prop to the page header.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
alololox/DSB_Wordpress_Theme
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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