Lauren Wise
Senior Android Developer at Faire
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLauren Wise is a Senior Android Developer with nine years of experience building native Kotlin apps and design systems, currently owning the Android Design System and Kotlin Multiplatform enablement at Faire. She has a strong background in mobile infrastructure—performance analytics, CI, linting, crash reporting—and has driven theming and component libraries across native and React Native platforms from her time at Shopify. Lauren’s open-source contributions include UI and accessibility improvements to Shopify Polaris, showing attention to both developer UX and end-user accessibility. Based in Ottawa, she combines systems-level thinking from teaching OS and systems programming with hands-on product delivery, and she often surfaces subtle UX and accessibility wins while improving app performance.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Minor in Biology Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Minor in Biology Computer Science at Carleton University
English, French
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Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
May 2018 - Aug 2018
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:73 commits, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lauren primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Shopify Polaris design system, as evidenced by their work on `ActionList`, `DropZone`, `DatePicker`, `OptionsList`, and `ComboBox` components. Their commits focused on adding new features like ellipsis support, implementing component styling, and ensuring proper functionality through testing. Furthermore, the user was also involved in refactoring UI elements to improve their accessibility and user experience.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
lwise/meowbot
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Just a Discord Bot.
Contributions:12 reviews, 115 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 7 months
discordbotdiscord-jsdiscord-bot
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