Andre Rocha
Software Engineer at minacolor Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Rocha is a full-stack software engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and shipping features end-to-end. He combines pragmatic backend engineering—evidenced by reducing Amazon Merchant API errors from thousands per day to single-digit weekly errors—with front-end craftsmanship, contributing to Shopify’s Polaris design system and improving React components and UI accessibility. At startups and fast-moving teams he’s built CI/CD and deployment pipelines (CircleCI, AWS ECS, Docker), designed data pipelines to scale drone operations, and created custom checkout flows that increased conversion by 5%. He prefers collaborative, multi-disciplinary environments and has a track record of turning prototypes and experiments into production-ready systems. Notably, he has balanced large-company open-source contributions with startup impact, showing both community-facing work on Polaris and hands-on incident response during high-stakes launches.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Diploma, Secondary School Diploma at Lisgar Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (14)
typescript10
component-library10
typescripts10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
sys10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
jtest8
jes8
jestjs8
webpacker7
webpack7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris-react-archive
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Shopify's Polaris Design System - React implementation (Deprecated)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 10 reviews, 57 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andre primarily contributed to the Shopify Polaris design system, focusing on the React-based frontend components. Their commits demonstrate work on UI improvements, including fixing a high-contrast issue with the progress bar, customizing the empty state within the resource list component, and updating the icon component. The user also worked on batching Percy tests, and refactoring the date picker component to use hooks. Furthermore, the user made build-related changes within the shrink-ray script, webpack, and consumer tests.
reactshopifyshopify-polaristypescriptdesign-system
amrocha/resume
May 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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