André Ericson
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolAndré Ericson is a Staff Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 15 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading full-stack development efforts. He has a strong Python/Django background and deep experience modernizing front-end build systems, evidenced by contributions to Django-React boilerplates and templated email tooling. His career spans high-throughput backend systems (microservices, Kubernetes, GCP, Kafka) powering e-commerce order flows as well as product-focused roles shipping React-based UIs. At Vinta he helped grow a startup from its first hire into a profitable team, and more recently has taken on senior and staff engineering roles at Shopify. André combines hands-on coding with release engineering and developer tooling improvements—often tackling build, linting and deployment friction that many teams overlook. He holds a computer science degree and a long history of practical open-source contributions that bridge backend and frontend concerns.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Newcastle UniversityBachelor's Degree, Ciência da Computação, Bachelor's Degree, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
sendmail10
python10
django10
send-email10
testing10
mailsender10
webpack10
e-mail10
webpacker10
react10
emailjs10
bootstrap9
full-stack9
fullstack-development9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vintasoftware/django-react-boilerplate
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Django 5, React, Bootstrap 5 with Python 3 and Webpack project boilerplate
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 26 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:André primarily focused on enhancing the front-end and build processes of the Django-React boilerplate. They refactored the webpack configuration, separating jQuery and updating dependencies. The user fixed linting issues and ensured component exports, along with absolute paths configuration. They were also involved in rebranding efforts and integrating updates for the build process like polyfills and autoprefixer.
herokudjango-3pythondjangobootstrap-4
aericson/aarchup
May 2011 - Apr 2020
Contributions:50 commits, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 9 years
updatenotifierarchlinuxupdate-notifier
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