Derek Meulmeester
Software Engineer at Stripe
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Meulmeester is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building payments infrastructure at Stripe from his base in Ottawa. He brings full‑stack fluency—particularly in frontend polish and configuration—demonstrated by contributions to the popular Shopify app Rails engine where he modernized UI to Polaris, added configurable login behavior, and handled release packaging and sanitization fixes. Trained in electrical engineering with a specialization in nanotechnology and microsystems at UBC, he combines hardware‑class rigor with pragmatic web engineering. Comfortable across product, QA, and deployment concerns, Derek has a track record of shipping user-facing improvements that reduce technical debt while improving UX. He balances large-company impact with hands-on open-source work that surfaces practical, user-centered fixes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering Nanotechnology and Microsystems, Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering Nanotechnology and Microsystems at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (9)
css10
shopify-app10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
release-management9
user-interface8
testing8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify_app
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
A Rails Engine for building Shopify Apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the frontend and configuration of the Shopify app. They updated the application's CSS to align with the Polaris design system, improving the visual appearance and user experience. Additionally, the user made changes to the app's configuration, adding the ability to customize the login URL and removing deprecated Shopify partner and app icon elements. Finally, they packaged new releases for the app and addressed sanitization issues, demonstrating involvement in release management and quality assurance.
railsrails-enginehotel-bookingshopify-appsruby
meulmeesters/calypso
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 100 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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