David X
Staff Software Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid X is a Staff Software Developer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across e-commerce, logistics, HR, telecommunications, and government sectors. He has led cross-functional teams and projects at Shopify and Flexport that delivered measurable impact—such as enabling 40,000 purchases per minute, driving $10M+ fulfillment volume in a month, and cutting support tickets by over 90%. Technically fluent in Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Java, GraphQL and AWS, he combines systems design, performance optimization, and pragmatic engineering to reduce costs and accelerate delivery. Outside work he built a widely used mobile app for Canadian income tax with 100k+ downloads and published peer-reviewed research on neural learning, reflecting a mix of product focus and academic rigor.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Biomedical & Electrical Engineering with Co-op option., Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Biomedical & Electrical Engineering with Co-op option. at Carleton UniversityMaster’s Degree MMath in Computer Science, Master’s Degree MMath in Computer Science at University of WaterlooProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dxuprog/bb10_incomeTaxCalculator
Sep 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
dxuprog/dxuprog.github.io
May 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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