Colby Fayock
Senior Engineer at Shopify
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColby Fayock is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of experience blending front-end craftsmanship, developer experience leadership, and creator-led storytelling from West Chester, PA. He’s shipped polished UI work on widely used open-source projects like the slick carousel and built developer-focused tooling and starters such as a Next.js WordPress starter, demonstrating an eye for both UX detail and scalable developer workflows. As Director of Developer Experience at Cloudinary and now at Shopify, he’s bridged product engineering and community advocacy to make integrations and content-driven apps easier to build. Colby also runs Space Jelly, publishing playful “astrocoder” tutorials that translate complex web concepts into joyful, practical lessons—an unusual mix of design roots and engineering leadership.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Integrative Arts Graphic Design and Photography, BA Integrative Arts Graphic Design and Photography at Penn State University
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
wordpress10
user-interface10
nextjs10
sc10
scs10
front-end-development10
react10
responsive-design9
sass9
html6
frontend6
wysiwyg6
htaccess6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
📝 Bring WordPress to the static world with Next.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 476 commits, 278 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Colby primarily focused on setting up the foundational structure of the Next.js application, including basic scaffolding for pulling in WordPress content. They were responsible for moving styles to SCSS and implementing core components such as Layout, Footer, and Header. The user also worked on building the pages for displaying posts and the home page, which involved integrating data from a WordPress API and displaying content.
next-jsnext-starterreactwordpresswpgraphql
kenwheeler/slick
Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
the last carousel you'll ever need
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Colby primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the "slick" carousel library. Their contributions involved adjusting the positioning of pagination dots, adding and modifying CSS rules for visual consistency, and integrating font-related configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented logic to dynamically add a class to slides based on the number of slides shown and fixed browser compatibility issues. Their work demonstrates a focus on refining the visual presentation and usability of the carousel.
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