Mallory Allen
Senior Software Engineer at Warner Music Group
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMallory Allen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js and Ruby on Rails. She has driven front-end platform work at Shopify, contributed integrations and HMR improvements to popular example apps, and delivered user-focused features at Coursera and enterprise teams. Recently she broadened her skill set into VR and Unity—creating and selling VRChat assets, writing C# scripts and custom shaders—which reflects a blend of creative design and systems thinking. Based in Ottawa, Mallory balances hands-on implementation with mentorship and cross-team collaboration, and her open-source contributions show a practical focus on developer experience and build tooling. She’s also a self-described cat-and-noodle enthusiast, hinting at a personable, curious approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeJohn McCraeCarleton Uni
Github Skills (15)
typescript10
nodejs10
javascript10
typescripts10
api10
expressjs10
apidoc10
webpacker10
shopify10
typescript-types10
webpack10
react10
testing9
koa9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-node-app
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
An example app that uses Polaris components and shopify-express
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 16 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mallory primarily focused on integrating webpack and hot module replacement (HMR) into the Shopify Node app, indicating a focus on front-end development and build processes. They also refactored the application structure, updating routes and the API proxy. The user implemented a basic API proxy, enabling communication with Shopify's API, and integrated with Shopify Express framework. Further work involved store initialization and fixing install issues.
shopify
Shopify/quilt
Mar 2018 - Dec 2021
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 119 commits, 258 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mallory contributed to the Shopify Quilt repository by modifying JavaScript/TypeScript packages. Their work included cleaning up template extensions for VS Code, fixing test commands, and adding tests for the plop package. They also added and modified code related to the koa-shopify-auth package, specifically implementing features like OAuth callback handling, OAuth start functionality, and verification requests. Furthermore, the user added and integrated a react-serialize package and enhanced react-html components.
javascriptshopifytypescript
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