Derek Stride
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDerek Stride is a Senior Software Developer based in Ottawa with 12 years of experience building high-performance, resilient storefronts at Shopify. He led a major rewrite of Shopify’s storefront to improve scalability and uptime, and designed a verification strategy to migrate shops incrementally without downtime. Comfortable across backend systems and performance engineering, Derek also contributes to nvim-treesitter, enhancing language injection and SQL parsing for improved syntax highlighting. His background spans fast-paced product development and automation—from expanding BlackBerry’s continuous delivery with Chef to launching an early e-commerce site—reflecting a pragmatic, systems-first approach. A Carleton-trained software engineer, he combines deep production experience with active open-source craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering at Carleton University
Github Skills (5)
neovim10
lua10
tree-sitter10
sql9
ruby8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 6 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the nvim-treesitter project by implementing and refining features related to tree-sitter queries. They added new directives and enhanced existing ones, specifically for language injections, such as Ruby. The user also expanded the SQL support by adding keywords, updating highlights, and integrating the latest parser AST. Their work involved modifying and expanding the query files for improved code highlighting and syntax understanding.
nvim-treesitterluatreesittertree-sittervim
DerekStride/derekstride.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
A website to host my musings.
Contributions:34 PRs, 144 pushes, 35 branches in 10 years 1 month
tailwindcssjekyllhostmusings
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