Chaz Dean
Senior Software Engineer at Tarro
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChaz Dean is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with five years of professional experience and a strong front-end focus honed during a multi-year tenure at Shopify. He contributed to Shopify Polaris—improving UI components, accessibility, keyboard shortcuts, and documentation—demonstrating an ability to shape design systems used across large-scale merchant experiences. His background blends customer-facing technical roles at Apple and IT administration with formal web development training, giving him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to building scalable interfaces. Now at Tarro, he continues to marry polished UX with robust front-end engineering, often bringing small but impactful quality-of-life features (like copy/paste utilities and refined icon views) that improve developer and user workflows.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - Honors Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - Honors Psychology at Carleton UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Lighthouse Labs
English
Github Skills (15)
typescript10
component-library10
typescripts10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
sys10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
nextjs8
sass8
css8
iconsets8
file-icons8
glyph-icons8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
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:61 reviews, 65 commits, 69 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chaz primarily contributed to the front-end of the Shopify Polaris design system. Their work involved implementing UI components, particularly those related to the website refresh, adding features like a copy/paste utility for tokens, and modifying the icons detail view. They also made changes to components like the global search and implemented keyboard shortcuts for improved user interaction. Additionally, they updated documentation and examples.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
chazdean/scheduler
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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