Albert Chu
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Chu is a senior software developer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, scalable web applications across startups and enterprise platforms, currently shaping the core merchant experience at Shopify. He blends pragmatic, team-focused Agile engineering with fluency in both object-oriented and functional paradigms, contributing notably to Shopify’s Admin Theme Code Editor. Past roles span product-facing feature work at ZenHub, AI-driven optimization at Ambyint, and CI/AWS infrastructure and Terraform automation at Replicon, reflecting a strong backend-to-frontend breadth. Comfortable owning features from design through deployment, he also brings a performance- and testing-minded background from Synopsys and Coverity. Based in Calgary, he pairs a games-development-rooted computer science degree with a persistent focus on shipping maintainable, production-ready systems. An understated strength is his repeated history of integrating performance testing and CI practices into delivery pipelines to prevent regressions while accelerating feature work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of CalgaryBSc, Computer Science w/ concentration in Games Development, 3.2 GPA, BSc, Computer Science w/ concentration in Games Development, 3.2 GPA at University of Calgary
Chinese, English
Github Skills (27)
parser10
shopify10
oclif10
formatter10
haml10
intellisense10
language-server10
liquid10
hydrogen10
cli10
vscode-extension9
typescript9
markup9
linter9
markup-language9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
albchu/wedding
May 2019 - Mar 2020
My Wedding Website
Contributions:132 commits, 5 PRs, 80 pushes in 9 months
react
albchu/react-use-paginator
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
A simple yet configurable react hook for pagination. Functionally developed.
Contributions:44 commits, 10 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years
reactconfigurablepaginationreact-hookshooks
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