Adam Ford
Senior Developer at Shopify
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Ford is a pragmatic Senior Developer with 11 years of experience specializing in C#, .NET, SQL Server and web technologies, currently building systems at Shopify from Edmonton. He excels at improving and modernizing legacy codebases—revamping large ASP.NET MVC applications while continuing to deliver features and introducing processes like peer review and Kanban for better team flow. Adam balances curiosity for new technologies with practical engineering, having learned Ruby to automate builds and simplified deployments long before tooling matured. He’s mentored multiple developers and written enduring documentation, bringing an emphasis on maintainability and team productivity. Notably, his strength is diagnosing how systems fail and designing incremental, low-risk improvements that compound into long-term reliability.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of AlbertaDiploma, Computer Systems Technology, Diploma, Computer Systems Technology at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
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Github Skills (36)
net-library9
compilation9
typescript9
react9
server-side8
rendering8
code-snippets7
server-side-rendering7
precompiled6
asp-net6
visual-studio-extension6
asp-net-mvc6
jquery6
json6
snippet6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TeamAADGT/CMPUT404-project-socialdistribution
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:80 PRs, 159 pushes, 130 branches in 1 month
cmput404
WandowsVR/VRBikeOculusGame
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 15 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 months
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