Mina Smart
Principal Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMina Smart is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building performant web platforms and developer-facing APIs at Shopify, where they progressed from primary contributor on the JS Buy SDK to leading Storefront APIs and client libraries and now shaping engineering strategy. They blend hands-on front-end craftsmanship—evident in contributions to widely used Shopify repos that improved cart UX and SDK build/test flows—with leadership as a senior engineering manager and developer lead. Mina has a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions across the stack, from browser SDKs and GraphQL APIs to deployment and CI refinements. Comfortable moving between code and people, they pair technical depth with operational rigor, having led migrations, cross-functional teams, and sponsorship initiatives outside engineering. An early background in embedded and acoustic software gives Mina an uncommon systems perspective that informs elegant, reliable product design.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
shopify10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
html10
graphql10
apollo10
gui-testing10
ui-testing10
react10
web-testing10
babel69
ember9
babel-core9
broccoli9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/js-buy-sdk
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
The JS Buy SDK is a lightweight library that allows you to build ecommerce into any website. It is based on Shopify's API and provides the ability to retrieve products and collections from your shop, add products to a cart, and checkout.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 458 commits, 141 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mina primarily worked on front-end development tasks, as indicated by changes to the `Brocfile.js` to include Javascript files, `index.html` for the SDK's test setup, and JavaScript code related to tests. The user refactored the build process to use functions for better organization and also updated code to facilitate easier vendor dependency inclusion, and CI compatibility, and code organization. The commits highlight the setup and structure of front-end testing and integration with external libraries.
cartapicollectionsretrieveecommerce
Shopify/storefront-api-examples
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Example custom storefront applications built on Shopify's Storefront API
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mina primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Shopify storefront examples. Their contributions included implementing features like displaying product totals and taxes within the cart component, modifying the cart service, and updating various components to reflect the changes. They also updated keys and simplified proxies within the application. The commits demonstrate the user's focus on improving the end-user experience within the application.
apireactcustom-storefrontecommercestorefront-api
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