Lo Kim
Staff Developer Polaris at Shopify
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLo Kim is a staff full-stack developer at Shopify with eight years of experience building polished front-end systems and large-scale data-backed applications. Based in Honolulu, they specialize in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails and have driven accessibility fixes, component refactors, and new features for Shopify’s widely used Polaris design system. Previously at Warby Parker they owned a custom React/Redux point-of-sale used across 130 stores and led the creation of a retail design system and order-management tools. Lo combines hands-on UI development with backend ownership and test-driven delivery, drawing on earlier roles in technical coaching and legal data management to communicate complex requirements clearly. Known for pragmatic refactors and UX-minded engineering, they focus on projects that measurably improve human development and everyday quality of life. Their background blending customer-facing retail systems, curriculum design, and high-stakes data work gives them a rare mix of product empathy and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Joseph's University - Erivan K. Haub School of BusinessFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing English Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing English Chemistry at Saint Joseph's UniversityApp Academy
English, Korean, French, Italian
Github Skills (14)
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ui-design10
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react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
accessibility9
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css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
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:690 reviews, 178 commits, 320 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lo primarily contributed to the UI component library of the Shopify Polaris design system. Their work focused on fixing accessibility issues, refactoring listbox and combobox components, and adding new features such as support for maxHeight on popovers and vertical content in text fields. The user also implemented inline autocompletion functionality for text fields and refactored existing components to use the new text component.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
laurkim/looping-loop-web-091817
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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