Andrew K
Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew K is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Kitchener with a track record of designing and operating resilient systems across carrier-grade networking, IoT deployments, cloud platforms, and web applications. He blends hands-on implementation—C++, Java, C#, TypeScript and cloud infra—with strong architectural judgment, favoring pragmatic technology choices tied to problem domains. At Shopify and prior roles he has driven performance-sensitive engines, migrated risky dependencies, and automated deployments and CI to cut downtime and costs dramatically. He is a committed mentor who codifies design patterns, testing discipline, and code review practices to ensure long-lived, maintainable systems. Notably, he scaled machine-learning data pipelines and replaced legacy build toolchains to unlock large operational improvements while keeping security and reliability front of mind. His career reflects a consistent focus on measurable impact: faster deployments, lower costs, and systems that continue to perform as teams evolve.
4 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (19)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
migration9
rake8
resumable8
maintenance7
checker7
activemodel7
php6
coercion4
postgresql4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
simbasdad/rails
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
pumbaasdad/system-restore
Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 comment, 3 issues in 2 years 2 months
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