Chris Thomson
Member Of Technical Staff at Page
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Thomson is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building revenue-critical systems and internal tools, currently shaping real-time government monitoring at Page. Previously a Senior Developer at Wealthsimple and a longtime engineer at Shopify, he shipped merchant-facing billing features like local-currency billing and recurring revenue integrations that stopped significant financial leakage. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, Node.js and cloud migrations, he has a track record of narrowing ambiguous scopes into MVPs and driving parallel workstreams to launch quickly. Early entrepreneurial experience as the sole developer of Fusion Ads taught him to run production services end-to-end, and he’s known for mentoring peers through frequent code reviews and operational troubleshooting.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Cognitive Science Minor, Bachelor of Computer Science Cognitive Science Minor at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (129)
rspec10
avalara10
twitter10
hotel-booking10
latex10
sales-tax10
tax-rate10
javascript9
api9
netsuite9
spree9
html9
testing9
one-liner9
ruby9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
christhomson/noteface
Aug 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
christhomson/lecture-notes
Jan 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:327 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 5 years
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