Kirk Yuan
Software Engineer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Yuan is a software engineer with nine years of experience building front-end and full-stack web applications, currently at Shopify after consecutive engineering roles at Microsoft. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript and React ecosystems (Redux, Redux-Saga), and has a track record of improving UI/UX in high-profile projects such as GitHub Desktop. A Carleton University computer science student completing an honors degree, he pairs academic grounding with practical experience from teams at Dapper Labs/CryptoKitties and Kinaxis. Kirk’s contributions often focus on polish and accessibility—fixing dialog focus and branch-list display bugs—demonstrating attention to UX detail that users notice but that often goes unheralded. Comfortable in both startup and large-enterprise environments, he brings a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable, user-centered interfaces. Based in Vancouver, he blends research-oriented curiosity (gesture interface work in university) with production engineering discipline.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor's of Computer Science, Honors Bachelor's of Computer Science at Carleton University
English
Github Skills (13)
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
github-desktop10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
electron10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript8
css7
html7
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
desktop/desktop
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Kirk primarily focused on UI/UX improvements and bug fixes within the GitHub Desktop application. They addressed issues related to the display of the branch list and the focus of dialog buttons. The contributions involved modifications to React components using TypeScript and included code adjustments and the addition of commenting to the source code. The user appears to have been working on front-end UI elements of the application.
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RyanAbraham/Uncharted-Realms
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 days
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