Peter Garrow
Senior Frontend Engineer at Shopify
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Garrow is a Senior Frontend Engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping user-focused React applications, currently working at Shopify after leading frontend initiatives at Ambient Property Technologies and MX. He specializes in building reusable component libraries, white-labeled widgets, and accessible UI systems that scale across products and clients, having driven revenue-generating features and delivered high-impact widgets for millions of users. His background includes teaching and research at Brigham Young University, where he combined pedagogy with data analysis and co-authored work on retention and self-efficacy in information systems. Comfortable translating client needs into polished, reusable front-end architectures, he has a track record of accelerating delivery—finishing custom features ahead of schedule and packaging UI as consumable components. Based in Greater Pittsburgh, he blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and documentation skills, making complex interfaces easier to adopt internally and externally. An unexpected strength is his early cross-disciplinary experience (from lab data tagging to Microsoft Access tooling), which informs pragmatic solutions that bridge product, data, and UX.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Management Information Systems General, Master's degree Management Information Systems General at Brigham Young University
English, Khmer
Github Skills (36)
static-site-generator10
fastest10
graphql10
compiler10
frontend10
gatsby10
react10
reasonml8
apollo8
elm7
typescript7
vue7
flutter7
angular7
javascript6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
garrowp/personal
Sep 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
garrowp/gatsby
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Build blazing fast, modern apps and websites with React
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
reactblazing-fastblazing
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