Mitchell Soares
Frontend Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Soares is a frontend developer with seven years of hands-on experience building high-performance, mobile-first React and React Native experiences at Shopify, where he’s been a core client-side engineer on the Shop app since 2021. A Dev Degree student at Carleton University, he pairs formal computer science training with thousands of hours of production work, shipping features used by millions and improving core shopping and personalized feed experiences. He is fluent in TypeScript, writes thorough test suites with Jest, authors custom hooks, and is known for detailed, easy-to-review pull requests and thoughtful code reviews. Mitchell contributes to Shopify’s Polaris design system, improving accessibility and UI components like Modal, TopBar, DataTable and Pagination for a widely used open-source design library. Beyond engineering, he brings a creative lens from music, art and social sciences to problem solving and mentorship, helping junior developers grow while coordinating cross-functional releases.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Honours w/ High Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Honours w/ High Distinction at Carleton UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Banting Memorial High School
Github Skills (9)
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carbon-design-system10
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
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:13 commits, 11 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of UI components within the Shopify Polaris design system. Their work involved modifying existing components such as Modal, TopBar, and DataTable, along with creating new features for Pagination. The user focused on improving accessibility, implementing new functionalities, and addressing visual and structural issues within these components. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and ensuring proper functionality across various Polaris components.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
DevLifeClassroom/js-fundamentals-2018-midterm-assignment-mitchmaps
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
js-fundamentals-2018-midterm-assignment-mitchmaps created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
github-classroomjavascriptfundamentalsmidtermjs-fundamentals
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