Brett Wallace
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Wallace is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently building retail inventory systems for Shopify in the San Francisco Bay Area after a brief sabbatical. He has a strong Rails and React background and has shipped features across Shopify Fulfillment Network, Shopify POS integrations (including a Buy with Prime launch), and high-traffic consumer sites at WeddingWire where he optimized catalog search and rebuilt responsive front-ends. Brett contributes to open-source—enhancing the popular Discourse Ruby API with post actions, image uploads and hardened error handling—demonstrating care for robust backend design. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and teaching experience from General Assembly and internal training programs, and brings a practical, data-driven approach to performance and integrations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Criminology and Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (9)
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rest-api10
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apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
rubygems9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse_api
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Ruby API for Discourse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brett contributed to the development of the Ruby API for Discourse, primarily focusing on enhancing its functionality. They implemented features for post actions, including likes and flags, and added an image upload method. Additionally, they addressed a bug related to parameter usage and refined the API's error handling capabilities. These changes demonstrate their involvement in extending and improving the API's features and overall robustness.
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Lykkeper/partify
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 days
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