Renee Blackburn
Staff Software Engineer at Wealthsimple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRenee Blackburn is a Staff Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 11 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and frictionless tooling. At Wealthsimple she has shaped front-end and API platform strategy, shipping automations and incremental improvements that boost developer velocity and long-term maintainability. A full-stack, multi-language dabbler, Renee focuses on TypeScript, React and GraphQL while bringing practical experience across Vue, Angular and design systems from consulting at Rangle.io. She pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and process work—introducing CI/CD pipelines, component libraries and cross-team knowledge sharing. Her background in new media and early work on interactive installations and narrative games gives her a creative, user-focused approach to developer experience and product design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
New Media Certificate, New Media Studies, New Media Certificate, New Media Studies at Centennial CollegeBA, Sociology & New Media, BA, Sociology & New Media at University of Toronto Scarborough
Github Skills (60)
jquery-plugin10
static-site-generator10
form-fields10
fastest10
graphql10
frontend10
react10
gatsby10
jquery9
microservices9
infrastructure9
compiler9
gatsbyjs8
dx8
netlify7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
renvrant/conditionize.js
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Small jQuery plugins for handling conditional form fields via data attributes. (Partially unmaintained)
Contributions:3 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 10 months
jqueryjquery-pluginsjavascriptconditionaldata-attributes
renvrant/renvrant.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Personal page.
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
javascriptpersonal-page
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