Drew Minns
Full-Stack, UX-focused Developer and Designer with over 15 years experience. Driven to create tools and work that enables others to feel powerful, I have experience working with and leading engineering teams from planning, all the way to delivery. I've been an individual contributor, cross-discipline team member, teacher and mentor, people manager, open source contributor, and technical lead. Now, leading teams of developers and working closely with stakeholders to create the future. I believe we should all be champions for kinder products.
Technical Lead @ Playground Inc.
2018 - Current
Senior Engineer / Technical Architect @ HUGE Inc.
2016 - 2018
Lead Instructor and Developer @ HackerYou
2014 - 2017
Instructor @ Humber College
2013
Previously: Lead Front End at Scalability, UI Engineer at Mosaic, Web Designer at Universal Music, Designer at INK Entertainment
Select Projects
Shopify Independents - Technical Lead @ Playground Inc.
TypeScript
Slack Deletron - Personal Project
React | Redux | Express
Four Seasons - Technical Architect @ Huge
Node
MEC Get Outside - Senior Engineer @ Huge
React | Redux | Express
CBC Future - Senior Engineer @ Huge
Node
Griddy - Personal Project
Vue
Quantity Queries - Personal Project
React
Publications
PostCSS – A Comprehensive Introduction - Smashing Magazine
December 2015
Quantity Ordering with CSS - Smashing Magazine
July 2015
Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly - Smashing Magazine
July 2015
Tools
TypeScript, React, React-Native, Swift, Expo, Angular 7+, Vue, Redux, Vuex, GraphQL, Apollo, Node and Ruby On Rails. Behind the scenes knowledge includes AWS, Linux, Docker, Jenkins, Travis and Redis, Mocha, Chai, Enzyme and Jest.
Pretty great at Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. Product management, technical strategy, roadmap generation, team leadership, mentorship and teaching.