Philipp Schöfer
Senior Web Developer at Shopify
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Schöfer is a Senior Web Developer based in Hamilton, Ontario with over a decade of experience designing and building accessible, standards-compliant web interfaces and e-commerce solutions. He blends front-end craftsmanship (HTML, SASS, JavaScript, React) with back-end skills in Rails, PHP/Laravel and MySQL, and has shipped WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento and custom platforms. At Shopify since 2017 he’s focused on refining UI components—most notably contributing feature and bug fixes to the popular Polaris design system’s DataTable component, improving usability details like sticky headers and summary alignment. His background as a founder and consultant gives him a pragmatic, client-facing approach to problem solving and product design. Philipp pairs creative visual sensibility with rigorous code quality, accessibility and performance considerations. He’s comfortable moving between legacy PHP stacks and modern component-driven front ends, bringing practical trade-offs to complex UI engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vocational Training, Design and Technology, Vocational Training, Design and Technology at Gutenbergschule Frankfurt am MainAbitur, Abitur at Bunsen-Gymnasium Heidelberg
English, French, German
Github Skills (13)
datatables10
polaris10
typescript10
javascript10
component-library10
typescripts10
carbon-design-system10
datatable10
system-design10
sys10
react10
typescript-types10
css9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
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:31 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to the `DataTable` component within the Polaris design system. Their work involved fixing type errors, DOM validation errors, and tooltip bugs. They also focused on enhancing the component's features, such as sticky headers and fixed first columns, and improving the alignment of summary rows. The user’s commits show a strong focus on component refinement, bug fixes, and feature additions within the React-based design system.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
philschoefer/admin-bar-user-switching
Apr 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
placeadmin-baradminwordpressplugin
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