Chris Sloop
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChris Sloop is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, production-grade systems across commerce, content platforms, and media. Based in Berlin, he currently leads backend design at Shopify, where his MySQL and Elasticsearch optimizations doubled search performance and cut page loads by 3–4x in the theme store. Previously at Contentful and Refinery29 he drove full‑stack initiatives—from React front ends to DynamoDB/Postgres backends and Kubernetes—delivering measurable operational savings and faster render times. Comfortable as both sole engineer and technical lead, he combines deep systems/SQL tuning expertise with a pragmatic product focus on data layers for agentic commerce. A humanities-trained thinker, he applies cross-disciplinary curiosity to architecture and developer ergonomics, and maintains experience with open-source monorepos and internal tooling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
History and Philosophy, History and Philosophy at St. Stephen's CollegeHistory, Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory, History, Social, Cultural, & Critical Theory at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (52)
rich-text10
react-markdown10
rendering10
plug10
field-editor10
hotel-booking10
node-api10
contentful10
sdk10
monorepo10
rich-text-editor10
activemodel10
react10
react-components9
media-queries9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cribbles/wordle-with-friends
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 32 pushes in 1 month
cribbles/Slipmat
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:390 commits, 246 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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