Shawn Mckay
Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolShawn Mckay is a mission-driven staff software engineer and builder with 11 years of experience leading product-facing teams and shipping full-stack solutions across React, Node.js, AWS, and data-driven systems. Currently leading Amplitude’s audiences work, he owns cohorts, user/group computations, predictions and recommendations while previously driving AI figure generation and internal tools at BioRender. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like mirror.js and angular-meteor—with people leadership, having managed multiple teams, hiring, and career development. A former educator and founder (CodeRoad), Shawn brings a talent for turning complex domain problems into usable developer and product experiences, often surfacing practical middleware and effect-pattern improvements that improve maintainability at scale. Based in Vancouver, he blends academic teaching chops with startup pragmatism and a knack for rescuing good ideas from obscurity.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology / History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology / History at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript10
redux10
typescript-types10
mirror10
nodejs10
typescripts10
meteor10
react10
angular10
react-framework9
html9
testing8
bluebird6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Urigo/angular-meteor
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Angular and Meteor - The perfect stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 27 PRs, 20 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shawn contributed to the Angular and Meteor project by implementing features related to the Angular2 tutorial. They made several changes to the codebase, including refactoring steps, renaming tutorials, and adding dependencies. The user also focused on building the user interface, including adding static HTML to the template and using dynamic templates with NgFor, indicating their focus on front-end development.
typescriptmeteorangularperfectangular-meteor
mirrorjs/mirror
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
A simple and powerful React framework with minimal API and zero boilerplate.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Shawn contributed to the core functionality of the mirror.js framework. They focused on enhancing the effect handling mechanism by allowing users to overwrite the `addEffect` function and integrate custom middleware. The user refactored the history modes and action filtering, improving the code's maintainability. They also added a feature to tag effects to differentiate between actions and effects.
apireactboilerplatezeroreact-framework
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