Christopher Poirier
Staff Developer at Shopify
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Poirier is a Staff Developer with 13 years of experience building robust front-end systems and improving developer-facing design systems. Based in Chatham, Ontario, he’s advanced through senior and principal roles at Klipfolio and Shopify, where he now focuses on scalable UI components and accessibility. His notable open-source contributions to Shopify’s widely used Polaris design system include refactoring autocomplete into accessible combobox/listbox patterns and improving TextField and Filters, demonstrating a strong emphasis on usability and testable code. Christopher blends hands-on React and TypeScript expertise with a background in backend and CI tooling from earlier big-data and infrastructure work, giving him a full-stack perspective. He’s pragmatic about quality, regularly adding and updating tests to ensure maintainability, and he brings an engineer’s curiosity rooted in a software engineering degree from the University of Ottawa.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
French, English
Github Skills (17)
testing10
autocomplete10
typescript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
testing-library10
react-testing-library10
component-library10
sys10
typescript-types10
jtest10
testing-library-react10
typescripts10
react10
accessibility9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
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:32 reviews, 36 commits, 16 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the `shopify/polaris` design system, focusing on improving the `TextField` and `Filters` components. Their work included implementing focus rings, fixing clear button functionality, and refactoring the autocomplete component using accessible combobox and listbox components. These commits demonstrate a focus on UI development with React and TypeScript, enhancing the user experience and accessibility of Polaris components. The user also added and updated tests, suggesting they focus on code quality and maintainability.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
voiid/Brobot
Mar 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 push, 2 issues in 5 years 5 months
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