Alex Palad
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Palad is a senior full-stack software engineer based in Ottawa with a decade-plus history in web development and four years of focused experience at Shopify, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer. He combines front-end and back-end expertise—honed earlier building ad and media platforms at PopUnder—with systems engineering rigor from an MS at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Alex excels at shipping user-facing products and mentoring teams, enjoying challenges that stretch both technical depth and leadership. Quietly pragmatic, he brings experience across high-traffic web properties and a track record of evolving responsibilities within a major e-commerce platform.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (20)
react6
vscode-extension6
hotel-booking6
shopify6
component-library5
typescript5
polaris5
design-tokens5
stub4
testing4
rails4
ruby4
capybara4
figma-plugin4
spree4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/ui-extensions
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Repo for the public defintion of Shopify's UI extension APIs. Please use the community forum to ask questions or report issues: https://community.shopify.dev/c/extensions/5
Contributions:21 reviews, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 8 months
bsm/sidekiq-datadog
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
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