Cynara Li
Sr. Software Developer at Shopify
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCynara Li is a senior software developer based in Waterloo, Ontario with 10 years building scalable web applications and APIs, currently contributing to Shopify’s GraphQL, webhooks, and Rails-based tooling. She’s a full-stack engineer who favors backend work, with deep hands-on experience in Ruby on Rails, LAMP/PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and CI/automation — plus production tools like Sidekiq and Splunk. Her background spans startups and enterprise teams where she led end-to-end feature development, DB design and optimization, security hardening, and performance improvements. A pragmatic team player and quick learner, she’s comfortable owning complex integrations such as internationalization and analytics while mentoring through code review and agile practices. Outside work she balances a pragmatic engineering approach with a playful, creative streak — “human by day, cat by night” — which shows in steady long-term curiosity across tech stacks.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Jilin UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science and Technology, Master's degree, Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (23)
cjs9
react-modal9
shopify-api8
shopify7
extender6
javascript6
online-store5
typescript5
buf5
ecommerce4
burp4
validation3
security2
protocol-buffers2
protobuf2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iCynara/litterbox
Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 4 months
messplayground
iCynara/CatsMeow
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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