Summary
Shirley Xia is a Toronto-based creator and full-stack developer with 11 years of experience building web applications using React, the MEAN stack, Python and Java. She has delivered production features for major media brands at Bell Media and Postmedia and contributed to data-driven microservice work at SOTI. More recently she launched consumer-facing projects including an AI-moderated marketplace (Clarity Marketplace) and a Spotify lyrics translation app built in React that detects player progress and translates lyrics on the fly. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and DevOps-adjacent tasks, she brings a pragmatic approach to responsive UI/UX, REST APIs and event-driven components. Her background in application support and automation at TIFF and early work with Oracle and PowerBuilder underscores a habit of improving operational workflows as well as shipping features. Shirley’s portfolio-driven maker mindset combines product curiosity with hands-on engineering, often turning manual processes into automated, user-facing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at The Woodlands Secondary School
Computer Science Specialist Information Technology, Computer Science Specialist Information Technology at University of Toronto
Chinese, English