Ariel Caplan
Senior Developer at Shopify
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Caplan is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput web services and developer tools, currently contributing to Shopify’s CLI to streamline app and extension workflows. Based in Israel, he blends backend systems expertise—shipped at Cloudinary handling billions of requests—with a pragmatic full-stack approach evident in significant open-source fixes and feature work for Shopify’s widely used CLI. He has led billing and core engineering efforts, mentored teammates, and introduced performance and process improvements that cut costs and ramped new hires quickly. Curious and multidisciplinary, Ariel’s background spans biology research to molecular animation, reflecting a methodical, data-informed mindset and an eye for practical automation and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development in Ruby on Rails, Web Development in Ruby on Rails at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General at Yeshiva University
Hebrew
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
testing10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
shopify-cli10
ruby10
typescript-types10
command-line10
typescripts10
cli10
npm9
git9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/cli
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 340 reviews, 783 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ariel contributed significantly to the development of the Shopify CLI, focusing on features related to theme and UI extension creation and deployment. They implemented a theme app extension deployment workflow, addressing file size validations and improved error handling for the build process. Additionally, the user worked on improving the app information command and added support for different package managers such as yarn, and pnpm. They also improved the build process for the extension and added tests.
cliecommercehydrogenoclifthemes
Shopify/shopify-cli
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 62 reviews, 226 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily focused on improving the Shopify CLI, addressing various aspects from code quality to user experience. They fixed typos, refactored code for clarity, and handled edge cases such as Git availability. The user also implemented features related to extension development, including adding options, creating pseudo-EnvFile objects, and correcting logic within the extension push commands. They demonstrated proficiency in adapting and refining existing features to enhance the overall functionality of the CLI.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
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