Megan Mcchesney
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMegan Mcchesney is a product and information architect with 15 years of experience turning complex systems into user-centered digital products that drive growth and meaningful engagement. She blends hands-on content and product expertise to excavate, validate, and communicate ideas across departments, fostering inclusive collaboration and product teams that feel heard. Known for leading with empathy and authenticity, she treats inclusion and allyship as non-negotiable principles in both strategy and execution. Megan couples strategic product leadership with practical developer chops—contributing to high-impact open-source tooling like the Shopify CLI to improve UX and documentation. Based in Old Toronto, she excels at storytelling in product contexts, translating technical detail into persuasive narratives that accelerate adoption. Her work habitually balances measurable business outcomes with a deep care for shared humanity.
15 years of coding experience
English, French
Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
shopify-cli10
documentation10
command-line10
cli10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
ruby8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 64 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Megan primarily focused on enhancing the user experience and documentation of the Shopify CLI. Their contributions included updating help text across multiple commands, adding extended help information with examples for specific commands, and correcting formatting errors. They also made changes to open and serve commands. Additionally, they addressed feedback, refining the CLI's interface and usability.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
gfscott/eleventy-plugin-embed-everything
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
An Eleventy plugin to easily embed common media formats in posts, using only their URLs
Contributions:30 releases, 64 reviews, 506 commits in 3 years
tiktokeleventy-pluginyoutubeinstagram11ty-plugin
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