Shavon Harris
Lead Software Engineer at itsThatLady.dev
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolShavon Harris is a Lead Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience and a recent 3-year focus delivering production full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python. She has driven accessibility and quality improvements at enterprise scale—raising WCAG compliance by 60%, boosting test coverage to 95%, and helping products handle billions of daily queries for 80% of the Fortune 100. Now leading AI‑powered automation and tooling for small businesses at itsThatLady.dev, she combines OpenAI integrations, N8N workflows, and voice tech to cut manual work and scale operations. Her background spans frontend nuance and backend best practices, including modernizing a popular React Native project by migrating navigation and state to hooks. Passionate about mentoring and career changers, she pairs hands‑on engineering with curriculum and community work to grow the next wave of developers.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Frontend Development, Frontend Development at ScrimbaBachelor of Arts - BA International/Global Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA International/Global Studies at Northern Michigan University
French, Arabic, English
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
typescripts10
react-native10
mobx10
react-navigation10
typescript-types10
react9
boilerplate9
cli7
mobx-state-tree7
flowtype6
nodejs6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
infinitered/ignite-bowser
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Bowser is now re-integrated into Ignite CLI! Head to https://github.com/infinitered/ignite to check it out.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shavon primarily contributed to the React Native mobile application, focusing on refactoring the navigation structure and updating dependencies. They upgraded React Navigation to version 5, migrating navigation state from MobX-State-Tree to React hooks, and implemented back button handling. They also updated various dependencies, including MobX, React Native, and related libraries, ensuring the project's compatibility and modernizing the codebase.
ignite-climstreact-hooksmobx-state-treehead
harrisrobin/ignite-bowser
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
The most popular React Native boilerplate, powered by Ignite CLI by Infinite Red
Contributions:37 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
reactboilerplateignite-clireact-native-boilerplatereact-native
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