David Rose
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Rose is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience and a strong foundation in computer science from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Shopify after an earlier focus on e-learning platforms at D2L, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python, C#, SQL and Eclipse-based tooling. Known for moving from individual contributor to senior technical leader roles, he excels at designing scalable systems and mentoring teams within fast-paced product environments. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he combines practical enterprise experience with a background in educational technology, giving him a pragmatic perspective on user-centered software and platform reliability. An engineer who values craftsmanship, he often bridges legacy codebases and modern services to accelerate delivery while reducing technical debt.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University
English
Github Skills (25)
design-tokens10
shopify10
oclif10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
hydrogen10
react10
intellisense9
cli9
language-server8
ecommerce7
hotel-booking6
ruby6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drose-shopify/dotfiles
May 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
drose-shopify/slackify
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Build Slackbot on Rails using Slack Event API
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
apirailsslackbotrubyslack
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