Alan Ly
Staff Developer at Shopify
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlan Ly is a Staff Developer at Shopify with 12 years of experience building performant, secure Java and web applications and maintaining LAMP infrastructure. He focuses on doing more with less—optimizing for minimal code, resource usage and reuse through strong object-oriented design and automation. His background includes developing large automated testing frameworks (Rational Functional Tester) and contributing to infrastructure and tooling at scale across multiple senior roles at Shopify. Comfortable across Linux, Java, HTML5 and CSS3, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering and systems thinking. Based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, he pairs curiosity for networking and web technologies with a consistent emphasis on security and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityDiploma of Collegial Studies, Computer Science, Diploma of Collegial Studies, Computer Science at Dawson College
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (22)
resumable7
php5
compile4
scripting-engine3
mruby3
sandbox3
psr-43
scripting2
client-library2
api-client2
game-engine2
composer2
react2
engine2
nodejs2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alanly/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:131 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
alanly/comp371
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:122 commits in 1 month
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