Chris Atlee
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Atlee is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance release engineering and developer tooling across Linux and cloud environments. Currently at Shopify after a long tenure leading release engineering at Mozilla, he combines deep Ruby and Python expertise with hands-on experience in build systems, AWS, and performance optimization. He’s contributed significant improvements to the widely used Shopify CLI—adding Theme App Extension workflows, refactoring config generation, and hardening error and encoding handling. Comfortable operating at both code and organizational levels, he has a track record of turning release and build complexity into reliable, scalable developer experiences. Based in Oakville, Ontario, he brings a pragmatic systems perspective rooted in a Waterloo computer science education.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 71 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Shopify CLI, focusing on adding and improving support for Theme App Extensions. Their work included adding CLI support for creating, and connecting to, Theme App Extensions, as well as updating the CLI to handle various aspects of this new extension type. They also refactored config generation and enhanced the error handling related to extension files. Additionally, the user addressed encoding issues and implemented getting started templates for Theme App Extensions.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
mozilla-releng/winsign
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Tools for signing Windows files
Contributions:24 commits, 13 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
powershellsigningwindows
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