Drew Minns

Full Stack Web and Mobile Developer + Designer

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.

Worked with

Select Projects

AZ Awards 2022 - Collaboration with Office Bureau
React, GSAP, Apollo
Good Neighbour - Really Good Work Inc.
TypeScript, NextJS, GraphQL, Prisma, Apollo
Shopify Hydrogen - Really Good Work Inc.
TypeScript, Svelte
PC Optimum - Tech Lead @ Loblaw Digital
TypeScript, React, Redux, Contentful
PC Optimum Insiders - Tech Lead @ Loblaw Digital
Gatsby
Slack Deletron - Really Good Work Inc.
TypeScript, React, NextJS
Four Seasons - Technical Architect @ HUGE Inc.
Node
CBC Future - Technical Architect @ HUGE Inc.
Node
Griddy - Really Good Work Inc.
Vue
Quantity Queries - Really Good Work Inc.
React

Select Experience

Founder - Really Good Work Inc.
2021
Founder - Good Neighbour
2021
Technical Lead - Loblaw Digital
2020 - 2021
Technical Lead - Playground Inc.
2018 - 2020
Senior Engineer & Technical Architect - HUGE Inc.
2016 - 2018
Lead Instructor & Developer - HackerYou
2014 - 2017
Instructor - Humber College
2013 - 2014
Web Designer - Universal Music Canada
2009 - 2012
Web Designer - INK Entertainment
2007 - 2009

Previously: Lead Front End at Scalability, UI Engineer at Mosaic, Web Developer at Underground Operations.

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+, Svelte, NextJS, Vue, Redux, Vuex, GraphQL, Apollo, AstroJS, React Query, TRPC, GSAP, ThreeJS, Prisma, Node and Ruby On Rails.

Behind the scenes knowledge includes AWS, Cloudflare, CircleCI, 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:

Technical solutions made for humans, not robots.
Leadership built on kindness, not climbing a ladder.
Code, design and research.
Using the right tools, not your favourite ones.
Building client partnerships.
Collaboration rooted in empathy (and intelligent solutions).

Interested in collaborating or need my skills?

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