Drew Minns
Growing up, I straddled two realms: on one hand, I was a scrappy punk kid with a DIY mentality; on the other, I was an early adopter of the internet, and understood the opportunities these new technologies presented. Today, I’m fortunate to be able to bring both these elements of my personality together through my work, always in new and innovative ways.
Working on projects with real impact and longevity has been an important focus of my personal practice. I strongly believe in the positivity of change and progress, and continuously challenge myself to improve not only my own work, but the industry at large, when and where I can. Part of this quest for improvement is realized in the adoption of new tools, new environments, and new ideas—and part of it comes down to simply accepting that I am an individual with privilege, who can use their platform to bolster others. We should all strive to be champions for kinder design.
Select Projects
Good Neighbour - Founder
TypeScript | NextJS | Express | Docker | PostGres | Redis
PC Optimum - Engineering Manager @ Loblaw Digital
React | Redux
PC Optimum Insiders - Engineering Manager @ Loblaw Digital
Gatsby
Slack Deletron - Personal Project
React | TypeScript
Four Seasons - Technical Architect @ Huge
Node
CBC Future - Senior Engineer @ Huge
Node
Griddy - Personal Project
Vue
Quantity Queries - Personal Project
React
Selected Experience
Founder @ Really Good Work Inc.
2021 - Present
Founder @ Good Neighbour
2021 - Present
Engineering Manager @ Loblaw Digital
2020 - 2021
Technical Lead @ Playground Inc.
2018 - 2020
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
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.
Let’s chat more about:
- Human-driven technical solutions made for everyday
- Leadership built on kindness
- Code x design x research
- Using the right tools, not your favourite tools
- Building client partnerships
- Collaboration rooted in empathy (and intelligent solutions)