Evan Hennessy
Senior Software Engineer at Glass Canvas
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEvan Hennessy is a Senior Software Engineer and design-systems advocate with 10 years building full-stack React applications and component libraries for product-driven organizations. At Glass Canvas he progressed from founding frontend lead to Director of Engineering and now senior engineer, leading a multi-year migration from Rails ERB to a full React view layer and authoring a bespoke component library still in use. He combines product instincts from founding ParishConnect with hands-on UI craftsmanship—shipping delightful, detail-oriented interfaces and pragmatic integrations such as contributions to the widely used Toggl Track browser extension. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, Evan pairs a background in philosophy and music composition with formal full-stack training, which surfaces in thoughtful, user-focused solutions and an uncommon attention to design and interaction nuance.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, With Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, With Honours at St. Philip's SeminaryBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Music Theory and Composition, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Music Theory and Composition at York UniversityFull Stack Master Class, Full Stack Master Class at Juno College of Technology
English, French, Latin
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Github Skills (14)
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
chrome9
firefox9
css8
cors6
html6
nodejs6
react-select6
amazon-web-services6
email-validation6
fetch-api6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
toggl/track-extension
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Toggl Track browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the Toggl Track browser extension by implementing integrations with third-party task management platforms. Their work involved adding functionality to support MeisterTask, including creating timer links and extracting task information. The user also made adjustments to the UI and billable features. Furthermore, the user merged updates from the master branch and refined the UI by modifying styles.
firefoxbrowsertoggljavascriptchrome
LongbeardCreative/migrants-refugees
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 536 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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