Adam Felix
Senior Developer at Shopify
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Felix is a Senior Developer based in Ontario with six years of experience building reliable iOS and backend systems, currently shaping product and architecture at Shopify. He transitioned from a rigorous academic career in mathematics—holding a Ph.D. and multiple postdoctoral fellowships—into software engineering, bringing deep analytic rigor to design, development flows, and automated testing. Comfortable across mobile and server-side stacks, he has practical iOS experience from Tulip Retail and formal training from an immersive iOS bootcamp. A quick learner and perpetual tinkerer, he is currently exploring Haskell, Vapor, and watchOS to broaden his toolset and influence system design with functional ideas. Colleagues describe him as a problem solver who enjoys framing hard problems clearly and shipping pragmatic, well-tested solutions. His unusual blend of advanced mathematics and production engineering helps him spot subtle edge cases and statistical patterns others often miss.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Immersive iOS Bootcamp, Immersive iOS Bootcamp at Lighthouse LabsMaster's of Science, Mathematics, Master's of Science, Mathematics at Queen's UniversityBachelor of Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics & Optimization, Double Honours, Bachelor of Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics & Optimization, Double Honours at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (26)
kotlin10
code-generation10
swift10
typescript9
localization9
typesafe9
graphql9
globalization8
internationalization8
intl8
translation8
javascript7
formatjs7
react7
monorepo6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adam-felix-shopify/dotfiles
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Shopify/syrup
Mar 2020 - May 2022
A type-safe GraphQL model generator for Kotlin, Swift, and TypeScript.
Contributions:7 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
graphqlkotlinswifttypesafetypescript
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