Alex Blackie
Founder, President at BlackieOps
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAlex Blackie is a founder and software leader with 13+ years building developer platforms, DevOps, and backend systems across startups and Fortune-scale companies. He currently runs BlackieOps, where he’s building Worktree, a Canadian-sovereign Git collaboration platform and domestic cloud stack from code to cloud. Prior roles at Shopify, Wealthsimple, and Flow reflect deep experience in payments, platform security, and API/DevOps engineering, and he has hands-on history shipping maintainable backend work in open-source projects like Solidus. Known for pragmatic engineering and infrastructure-first thinking, he blends product leadership with day-to-day coding and code quality improvements. Based in Montreal, he combines founder grit with enterprise-grade experience and a contrarian sense of humor (self-described “world’s #1 python hater”) that hints at strong opinions about tooling and trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (13)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ecommerce10
ruby10
backend9
develop9
testing8
documentation8
spring-webflux6
session-cookie6
reactive6
spring6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
solidusio/solidus
May 2015 - Aug 2021
🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the Solidus e-commerce framework. They removed trailing whitespace, documented several classes, and refactored code related to error handling in the API. They also corrected test labels. Their contributions primarily focused on core models and helpers.
ecommercerailssolidusrubyshopping-cart
alexblackie/localyokals
Mar 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:70 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years
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