Brendan Boyle
Senior Software Developer at More & More
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Boyle is a Senior Software Developer based in Ottawa with a decade of experience building polished front-end experiences and shipping production-grade components. He spent ten years at Shopify contributing to core UI infrastructure—notably enhancing the widely used Polaris React DataTable with features like zebra striping, sticky headers, and improved accessibility and focus handling. Now at More & More, he continues to drive frontend quality and UX consistency while leveraging a background in computer programming from Algonquin College. Brendan’s cross-disciplinary academic mix, including a BSc in Kinesiology, informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering that balances performance, accessibility, and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBSc Kinesiology, BSc Kinesiology at University of New Brunswick
French, English
Github Skills (13)
datatables10
javascript10
typescript10
typescripts10
component-library10
datatable10
react10
typescript-types10
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
sys9
system9
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Apr 2022 - May 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, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the `polaris-react` component library, focusing on the `DataTable` component. Their work involved implementing new features like zebra striping and sticky headers, as well as refining existing functionalities such as table density and totals display. They also addressed bugs related to the sticky header's scrolling and focus management. Furthermore, they updated the code to enable more ReactNode types.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
blboyle/aoc23
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 11 pushes, 16 branches in 6 months
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