David Hou
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hou is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience, currently building developer tools and platform features at Shopify from Old Toronto. He works across the full stack, contributing to high-impact projects like the widely used Shopify CLI where he has improved UX, fixed tests, updated docs, and refactored app creation and deployment flows. Comfortable touching both front-end and back-end concerns, David combines pragmatic engineering with attention to developer experience. A University of Waterloo alumnus, he brings a steady track record of shipping reliable improvements in large codebases and quietly elevating tooling that helps other engineers move faster.
11 years of coding experience
University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
minitest10
ruby10
rspec10
command-line-interface10
unit-test10
shopify-cli10
command-line10
testing10
documentation9
git9
api8
apim8
heroku7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 9 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:David made several updates and fixes to the Shopify CLI, touching on various aspects of the project. Their work included fixing failing tests, updating documentation and copy, and improving the user interface. Additionally, the user refactored code related to app creation, deployment, and command help messages. These contributions suggest involvement across the codebase, encompassing both front-end user experience and back-end functionality.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
davekilljoy/gifparty
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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