Emily Mcminn
Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Mcminn is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building front-end focused full-stack applications, currently shaping Firefox user experiences at Mozilla. With a unique background in education and the arts, she brings exceptional communication, multitasking, and user-centered design instincts to complex UI work. Her open-source contributions include UI enhancements to Mozilla’s gecko-dev (about:welcome and message preview features), adding theme toggles and curated “Staff Picks” that improved first-run and messaging screens. Comfortable working across JS, Ruby, GraphQL and Postgres, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a teacher’s knack for simplifying complex interactions. Based in Old Toronto, she leverages classroom-tested patience and adaptability to drive polished, accessible interfaces at scale.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education, Music, French as a Second Language, Bachelor of Education, Music, French as a Second Language at University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in EducationBachelor of Music, Music Performance and Pedagogy, Bachelor of Music, Music Performance and Pedagogy at University of Toronto
English, French
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
react10
gecko9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/gecko-dev
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:221 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the about:messagepreview feature, focusing on UI enhancements and functionality. They added a light/dark mode toggle switch and implemented the logic to change the browser theme. Additionally, the user integrated the "Staff Picks" feature, involving the addition of new strings, a new callout, and related UI elements within the about:welcome screen. Furthermore, the user worked on code for the about:welcome screens and implemented the addons picker.
repositoriesfirefoxmercurialgit-mirrormozilla
AllegroFox/chatty-app
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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