Colin Bendell
Product at Rotary International
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Bendell is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience designing high-performance web platforms and developer-focused tooling, currently at Cloudflare and advising startups like LOCVM. He has led cross-company technical strategy at Shopify—improving Core Web Vitals by 35% and delivering Early Hints implementations—and previously defined data and CDN strategies at Cloudinary and Akamai. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, Colin contributes to open-source tooling (e.g., enhancements to the widely used Shopify CLI) and delights in low-level problem solving, from regex refactors to OS-specific CLI behavior. His management style emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and measurable business outcomes, having built performance consulting teams that translated speed into conversion lifts. A pragmatic optimist with an MBA, he pairs financial rigor and product vision with hands-on systems expertise to deliver elegant, cost-saving solutions. Outside work he volunteers rebuilding bikes for kids in Cambodia, reflecting a practical focus on impact beyond engineering.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurial Finance, MBA, Entrepreneurial Finance at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Business and Finance, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Business and Finance at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (11)
testing10
ruby10
command-line-interface10
command-line10
cli10
browser9
webbrowser9
system-calls8
windows7
macos7
linux7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Colin focused on enhancing the Shopify CLI by adding functionality to open a browser during login, specifically tailoring the browser opening command based on the operating system. They improved code quality by ensuring URIs are correctly quoted in system calls. Furthermore, the user implemented and expanded testing coverage for the command-line interface by writing tests for different OS system calls, covering scenarios on macOS, Windows, and Linux environments. The changes also reflect fixing syntax issues.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
colinbendell/esi_jwt
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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