Anthony Cameron
Staff Software Engineer at Parsel
Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Cameron is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building user-focused full-stack web applications and UI components. He has deep front-end expertise from long tenures at Shopify and contributions to notable open-source projects like Shopify Polaris and the popular emojify.js library. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, and legacy stacks, he combines pragmatic engineering with strong organization and the ability to juggle multiple high-impact initiatives. Anthony has experience at product-first companies including Stripe and smaller agencies, giving him both large-scale platform sensibilities and client-facing delivery chops. Based in Quinte West, Ontario, he is available for full-time or contract roles and maintains a public portfolio that showcases the kinds of practical, user-centered interfaces he builds. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he’s as involved in improving testing and toolchains as he is in shipping visible UI features.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Moira Secondary SchoolComputer Science, Honours, Co-operative Program, Computer Science, Computer Science, Honours, Co-operative Program, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Japanese, French, Korean
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
testing10
emoji10
polaris10
typescript10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
uid10
component-library10
front-end-development10
sys10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
May 2019 - Nov 2019
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:1 review, 12 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Shopify Polaris design system, specifically focusing on the Card component and its various sub-components like Section and Subsection. Their work included adding new features, such as allowing Card.Section to accept actions, and refactoring existing components. They also implemented and tested features with React and TypeScript, ensuring proper functionality and usability of these UI elements.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
joypixels/emojify.js
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
A Javascript module to convert Emoji keywords to images
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anthony contributed to the `emojify.js` repository, focusing on enhancing the functionality and improving the testing of the project. They implemented testing using testem and expanded the emojification capabilities to include strings. The user refactored the code to use a dictionary-based approach for HTML entity handling and improved the matching rules for emoji detection. They also updated the minified version of the library.
emojiemoticonsjavascriptnodejsemoji-convert
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