Ben Lerchin
Staff Software Developer at Shopify
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBen Lerchin is a Staff Software Developer with 13 years of engineering experience and a decade focused on full‑stack work using React, Ruby on Rails, and Node.js. He combines pragmatic, readable code with a strong emphasis on automated testing and CI/CD to boost reliability and developer velocity. At Shopify and previously as a technical lead at ProducePay, he has architected greenfield APIs, normalized large historical datasets, and led end‑to‑end testing initiatives. His background in media art and design (MFA, Glasgow School of Art and Whitman College) informs a knack for building immersive, media-rich web experiences and thoughtful UIs. Comfortable spanning front-end and DevOps, he frequently owns both architecture and developer workflows to deliver customer-focused features. Outside product teams he’s built prototypes bridging hardware and web (Raspberry Pi/Arduino & WebVR), showing a creative, multidisciplinary approach to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
New York Arts PracticumB.A., Studio Art, B.A., Studio Art at Whitman CollegeMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Design/Media Arts, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Design/Media Arts at University of California, Los AngelesCommunication Design, Communication Design at Glasgow School of ArtBachelor of Science (BS), Studio Art, Bachelor of Science (BS), Studio Art at Marin Academy
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (36)
leiningen10
eve10
traits10
idris9
testing8
react-dom8
hierarchical7
javascript7
react6
dom6
feed6
interaction5
session-cookie5
html5-canvas4
animation4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blerchin/dma-20-mfa-show
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Exhibition website for 2020 UCLA Design Media Arts MFA
Contributions:152 commits, 73 PRs, 220 pushes in 5 months
reactartsjavascriptexhibitionexhibition-website
blerchin/resume_xml
Feb 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
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