Ricky Dam
Web Developer (Intermediate)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Dam is an Ottawa-based web developer with a decade of experience building full-stack applications at Shopify, working across Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React and TypeScript. He pairs front-end craftsmanship with backend performance expertise — at CYBERNETIQ he remapped MongoDB to Redis and introduced Redis Streams, delivering dramatic speedups (300% read, 200% write) and cutting RAM usage by 30%. Earlier he built and pitched RickyBooks, an Android + Rails textbook marketplace presented to VCs at Shopify HQ, showing product instincts alongside engineering chops. Comfortable with testing (minitest, Jest), integrations (Twilio, NetSuite, Salesforce) and containerized deployments, he brings pragmatic cross-stack problem solving and an entrepreneurial streak.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton University
English, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (65)
authentication10
asymmetric10
android10
angularjs10
ios10
react-native10
react10
linux9
windows9
css9
cross-platform9
mobile9
angular8
ecdsa8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rickydam/ShopifyAndroidAppSummer2019
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Android app for a Shopify merchant with many collections of products! 🌎🖥️📱🤖
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
data-bindingtestingandroidandroid-appkotlin
rickydam/rickydam.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:270 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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