Danielle D'souza
Software Engineer at Ascend
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDanielle D'souza is a frontend engineer with seven years of experience building scalable, accessible web experiences, most recently contributing to Shopify’s frontend platform and now at Ascend. She specializes in React, TypeScript, GraphQL and design systems, having modernized tests and improved maintainability for Shopify’s widely used Polaris component library. Danielle balances product polish with performance and long-term architecture, regularly leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving developer experience. A University of Waterloo CS graduate and hackathon winner, she began her coding journey building sites for nonprofits—an early influence that informs her user-focused approach to engineering.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
polaris10
typescript10
typescripts10
component-library10
jestjs10
react10
typescript-types10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Jul 2021 - Nov 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:2 reviews, 8 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Danielle modernized tests for various Shopify Polaris components, including AccountConnection, ActionList, Item, Section, ActionMenu, and others. They updated existing tests and made code modifications to improve test coverage and maintainability. These changes involved refactoring tests, verifying component rendering, and ensuring proper event handling within the components. The modernization effort focused on improving the quality and reliability of the component library.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
cusec/2023
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:46 reviews, 111 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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