Thomas Jonkajtys
Senior Staff Designer, Polaris at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolThomas Jonkajtys is a Senior Staff Designer at Shopify leading Polaris, with a decade-plus career shaping design systems, product experiences, and designops across major organizations. He has driven high-impact redesigns—from Shopify.dev’s developer docs and theming to enterprise platforms at Desjardins and national media products at Radio‑Canada—bridging visual direction, accessibility, and engineering handoff. Known for building and scaling design systems and teams, he pairs hands-on UX and art direction with practical DesignOps leadership that accelerates delivery. His work includes typographic and illustration direction (including award-winning typeface work) and a knack for translating complex developer and business needs into usable, beautiful interfaces. Based in Montreal, he combines agency-era creative direction for global brands with product-led design leadership at a top-tier tech company. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambitious brand and developer experiences into coherent, implementable systems.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Degree, Multimedia, Technical Degree, Multimedia at Collège de MaisonneuveBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design at Université du Québec à Montréal / UQAM
English, French, Polish
Github Skills (9)
figma-plugin10
typescript10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
shopify10
react10
polaris6
salesforce-lightning4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Shopify/polaris
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Contributions:22 reviews, 34 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 6 months
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
Shopify/polaris-tokens
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Design tokens for Polaris, Shopify’s design system
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
shopifytokenspolarisdesign-systemsalesforce-lightning
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