Brandt Lareau
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Visalia, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrandt Lareau is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications for startups and enterprises. He has driven impactful projects at Weedmaps—improving deployment velocity, reducing infrastructure costs, and fostering a Ruby community—and now contributes to Shopify’s platform engineering. Brandt combines deep backend expertise (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq) with front-end integration experience from Ember/React work and a track record of shipping durable features like search, monetization, and identity systems. He’s led teams, mentored offshore developers, and architected CI services that dramatically cut release and test times. Based in Visalia, CA, he brings a pragmatic, improvement-focused approach and a history of turning maintenance pain points into reliable, reusable engineering solutions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at DeVry University
English
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Github Skills (178)
slack-bot10
ruby10
hosting10
rubygems10
gulp10
sidekiq10
mongodb-driver10
jruby10
slack-api10
bootswatch10
mruby10
sshkit9
haml9
formatter9
annotate9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lukealford/mobdex
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:56 commits in 16 days
slim-template/haml2slim
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Haml to Slim converter.
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 comments in 5 years
hamlxmlphpmustachederivative
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