Alex Salisbury
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Area B (DeCourcy/Gabriola/Mudge), British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Salisbury is a Staff Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11 years building web products, currently scaling engineering and delivery at Shopify from a developer to staff role. He blends hands-on front-end expertise with people leadership—having served as Development Manager and Senior Web Developer—bringing product-focused engineering to complex e-commerce platforms. Based in coastal British Columbia, he has a background in natural sciences which informs a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach to technical decisions and team coaching. Alex’s career spans agency work for creative brands to enterprise-scale systems at Shopify, giving him a rare fluency in both design-forward experiences and robust engineering processes. He’s known for turning ambiguous requirements into shipping features and mentoring engineers through growth and architecture choices. Outside of code he’s comfortable in nontraditional roles (ranch hand and tour guide), a hint at adaptability and hands-on problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Hons, Natural Sciences, BA, Hons, Natural Sciences at New College of Florida
Github Skills (34)
vscode-extension10
slide9
shopify9
design-tokens9
jquery9
scrolling9
typescript9
component-library9
figma-plugin9
react9
fullscreen8
mousewheel8
snap8
slideshow8
javascript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
asalisbury/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
adrianlemess/ts-sandbox
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
TypeScript workshop exercises
Contributions:34 commits in 1 month
typescript
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