Cameron Bothner
Senior Staff Developer, Markets at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolCameron Bothner is a design-driven full-stack developer with 11 years of experience building web applications and product-focused features at Shopify, currently serving as Senior Staff Developer on Markets. He combines a user-first sensibility with a passion for clean, readable code—treating engineering as both craft and art—to deliver delightful, reliable experiences. His background includes leading cross-border and transaction platform efforts at scale and solo-building education platforms and radio station tooling earlier in his career. An active contributor to Ruby on Rails, he has deep knowledge of Active Storage and multi-backend error handling, reflecting attention to edge cases that matter in production. Based in Montreal, he mentors engineers and shapes product decisions through measured experimentation and UX-informed iteration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Linguistics, with minors in Computer Science and Japanese, Graduated with Distinction, Bachelor of Science, Linguistics, with minors in Computer Science and Japanese, Graduated with Distinction at University of MichiganSemester Abroad, Japanese Language and Literature, Semester Abroad, Japanese Language and Literature at Doshisha University
English, Japanese, French
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
storage10
rails10
ruby10
activerecord10
error-handling10
testing9
disk9
azure8
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
gcp8
microsoft-azure8
aws-s38
flowtype6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily focused on improving the Active Storage component of Ruby on Rails. Their work involved handling edge cases related to file storage services, specifically dealing with error handling for missing files and ensuring the correct behavior across services like Azure, Disk, S3, and Google Cloud Storage. They also worked on improving error handling within the Active Storage DiskController and fixing a related XHR header issue. Their changes suggest a deep understanding of the Active Storage architecture and integration with different storage backends.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
cbothner/guillotine
Jan 2015 - Feb 2020
close cutting fundraiser database for wcbn-fm
Contributions:10 PRs, 36 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years 1 month
postgresqlclosecuttingdatabase
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