Michelle Mabuyo
Staff Developer Educator
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Mabuyo is a Staff Developer Educator with a decade of experience building front-end products and crafting developer-focused learning experiences, currently designing and delivering curriculum at Apollo GraphQL. She blends hands-on React and full‑stack engineering work—contributing to Apollo’s popular Odyssey learning repos—with pedagogy informed by running community workshops as Kitchener-Waterloo Chapter Lead for Canada Learning Code. Previously she scaled internal training at Manulife University, introduced structured instructional frameworks like Gradual Release of Responsibility, and shipped UX-focused features at Chalk.com. Michelle pairs product-minded engineering with strong mentorship and community growth, from co-founding a lean startup to teaching learners from grade school to professional engineers. Colleagues rely on her for turning complex GraphQL and front-end concepts into accessible, production-aligned learning artifacts.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Co-op, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Co-op at University of Alberta
Filipino, Cebuano
Github Skills (11)
graphql10
javascript10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
react10
front-end-development9
css9
ui-design7
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/odyssey-lift-off-part5-client
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Odyssey Lift-off V - Client - Course Companion App
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily focused on updating the client-side code for the Odyssey Lift-off V course companion app. Their contributions included updating the server URI, adding client awareness, and modifying components to use new data fields, such as `durationInSeconds` and `length`. They also made minor fixes, such as removing exports and changing the server URI for a course update, indicating they were working on the application's front-end components and data fetching/display logic.
companioncompanion-appliftodyssey
apollographql/odyssey-lift-off-part1
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 27 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, focusing on the user interface and components. The commits involved fixing typos and improving the presentation of information, as seen in modifications to various React components, and adding final code. The changes include component structure, layout, and the addition of functionalities using React-related libraries, demonstrating a focus on user-facing elements. Further, the commits also reflect updates to the project's dependencies, such as the update of the React Markdown version.
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