Carys Mills
Staff Front-end Developer at Shopify
Canada
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Top SchoolCarys Mills is a Staff Front-end Developer with 11 years of experience blending journalism and web engineering to build data-driven, user-focused interfaces. Currently at Shopify working on admin tooling and data visualizations, she authors libraries for international number formatting and visualization, and regularly uses React, TypeScript, GraphQL and d3. Her background as a reporter and multimedia web editor gives her a strong sense for storytelling, data clarity and rapid iteration under deadline. She has deep experience shipping interactive visualizations across media and government clients, from amCharts and Leaflet to bespoke d3 solutions. A seasoned mentor and project lead, she pairs hands-on implementation with guiding teams toward production-grade, accessible data products. Based in Canada, she bridges newsroom rigor and engineering scale to make complex data understandable and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Front-end Web Development Immersive, Front-end Web Development Immersive at Juno College of TechnologyJournalism Minor in politics, Journalism Minor in politics at The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
css10
math10
nodejs10
react10
shopify9
slugify9
design-tokens9
compose9
vscode-extension9
codebase9
certification9
component-library9
cjs9
chartjs-plugin9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carysmills/flagscraper
Apr 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
carysmills/whentoshop
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Viz of Google's Popular Times data for grocery stores, using React and Python
Contributions:84 PRs, 72 pushes, 68 branches in 11 months
reactpythongrocerytimesgrocery-stores
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