Clermont Clermont
Staff Developer at Shopify
Prévost, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolClermont Clermont is a Staff Developer with 12 years of experience building fast, maintainable web applications and driving measurable business impact for clients like Shopify, ALDO, Cirque du Soleil and Canadiens de Montréal. He specializes in JavaScript, React and node.js with a strong focus on web performance, having architected large ecommerce transformations and cost-saving build optimizations that supported high-traffic events like Black Friday. At Shopify he contributes to core open-source tooling—improving the Liquid templating language’s parsing and linting—bridging front-end UX with backend robustness. A McGill-trained engineer, he combines hands-on coding with developer coaching and pragmatic monitoring to turn performance bottlenecks into revenue gains. Based in Prévost, Quebec, Clermont brings an engineer’s attention to detail and a track record of shipping scalable, delightful web experiences.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Honours Mechanical Engineering, GPA: 3.6/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Honours Mechanical Engineering, GPA: 3.6/4.0 at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (22)
ruby10
liquid10
templating10
parser9
test-integration8
integration-testing8
unit-test8
test-unit8
unit-testing8
testing8
jasmine6
while-loop6
react6
angularjs6
vba6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/liquid
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Clermont primarily focused on improving the Liquid templating language, the core of the repository. They enhanced the parsing and traversal of the abstract syntax tree by adding `ParseTreeVisitor` classes to various tags and lookups, improving linting capabilities. The user also addressed inconsistencies in parsing filter arguments and implemented a new inline comment tag, expanding the language's functionality. Furthermore, they fixed a bug related to variable resolution in the render tag.
hamltemplatemarkup-languageliquidweb-apps
Shopify/theme-tools
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Everything developer experience for Shopify themes
Contributions:207 reviews, 185 PRs, 317 pushes in 1 year 6 months
formatterintellisenselanguage-serverlinterliquid
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