Willson Smith
Frontend Developer at Shopify Inc
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWillson Smith is a frontend developer with 12 years of experience crafting polished, usable interfaces and interactive experiences. He spent eight years as a Senior Creative Technologist at Shopify, blending design sensibility with rigorous front-end engineering to ship production-quality UI. Earlier roles at Sherpa Marketing and Martron honed his skills in cross-browser CSS, semantic HTML, and JavaScript-driven functionality from the ground up. Based in Old Toronto, he describes himself as a design technologist and UX-focused developer who enjoys building "one thing or another," signaling a pragmatic, product-minded approach. With a BA in Philosophy, he brings clear thinking and pattern recognition to complex UI problems and a knack for translating ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario
Github Skills (82)
cjs10
component-library10
figma-plugin10
design-tokens10
browserstack10
shopify10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
saucelabs10
react-modal10
protractor10
test-runner10
react10
shopify-api9
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WillsonSmith/SimilarFilms-python-flask
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 9 PRs, 51 pushes in 5 months
pythonmicroframeworkrecreationflaskflask-microframework
WillsonSmith/website
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:39 PRs, 59 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 4 months
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