Christopher Troup
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Troup is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building web applications from LAMP-era sites to cloud-native systems, currently driving platform work at Shopify. He has led engineering teams at FreshBooks and directed application development at Sheepdog, blending hands-on coding in PHP, Python, Java and JavaScript with technical leadership and delivery ownership. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns—including HTML/CSS, GWT and AppEngine—he focuses on practical, scalable solutions that evolve legacy systems into modern cloud services. A former combat engineer in the Canadian Forces, he brings disciplined problem-solving and operational rigor to software architecture and team coaching.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Western UniversitySt. Matthews High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (166)
reverse-proxy10
python10
proxy10
integrations10
flask-application10
floating10
ssh10
mysql-proxy10
amazon-elasticsearch10
hotel-booking10
ansible10
spree10
high-performance10
tooltips10
mysql10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
minichate/jscs-ember-deprecations
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:208 commits, 70 PRs, 172 pushes in 10 months
ember-addonwarningsemberjsemberdeprecation
minichate/ember-cli-tree-shake
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
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.