Craig Dykstra
Senior Developer at Shopify
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Dykstra is a seasoned senior developer with over a decade of experience building and leading full-stack teams for high-traffic, multi-platform e-commerce SaaS. Currently at Shopify after shaping technical direction and shipping a Kubernetes-based Go, Laravel, and React product at Bold Commerce, he blends hands-on coding (React/JS, PHP/Laravel, Go, MySQL, CSS) with DevOps fluency in Docker, Concourse, Kubernetes, and GCP. He has over four years of people-and-technical leadership experience—running interviews, mentoring peers, conducting reviews, and steering incident response and observability improvements. Notably, he led a migration from legacy PHP multi-page apps to React SPAs and optimized subscription order jobs for 10x throughput, demonstrating both architectural vision and performance-minded execution. Based in Canada, Craig is motivated, adaptive, and thrives in fast-paced environments where cross-functional collaboration and continuous learning drive product quality.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Lakehead University
Github Skills (63)
shopify-api10
shopify9
laravel9
php9
api9
syntax-highlighting9
highlighting9
cli8
database8
python8
symfony8
go-client8
mysql8
zsh7
rack7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Wryte/graphql-client-generator
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023
Generate a golang GraphQL client from a schema
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 1 month
golanggraphql-clientcode-generationcodegengraphql-golang
Wryte/expressdrive
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:69 pushes, 9 branches, 13 tags in 8 months
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