Brooks Ilg
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBrooks Ilg is a Staff Software Engineer based in California with nine years of experience building high-performance web applications and leading engineering teams. He progressed from hands-on web development and agency leadership to building API management tools and performance-driven frontend platforms at Booking.com, and now shapes scalable systems at Shopify. Brooks blends deep frontend expertise in React and Vue with a pragmatic focus on metrics, profiling, and experimentation to improve user-facing performance. He’s skilled at mentoring and managing cross-functional teams, having hired and scaled contractors and in-house engineers to increase delivery capacity. An early background in network support and designing accessible, pixel-perfect sites gives him a rare mix of operational discipline and UI craft. Despite a concise public GitHub presence (“beep boop”), his track record demonstrates a preference for impactful, production-first engineering over flashy open-source publicity.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (41)
accessibility10
javascript10
reader10
browser-extension10
css10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
darkmode10
design-tokens9
fundamentals9
vscode-extension9
http9
component-library9
firefox9
react9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brooksilg/music-player-vuejs
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Music player using Vue.js and howler.js
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
playervue-jshowlerjsvuevuex
brooksilg/sublime-settings
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.