Diego Plentz
Development Manager - Shipping at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDiego Plentz is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling platform services, now managing Shopify’s Shipping organization out of Old Toronto. He has a strong track record at Shopify leading cross-functional teams across Tax, Globalization, and address/checkout infrastructure, and oversaw the rollout of complex integrations like Avalara and marketplace tax flows. Diego pairs hands-on engineering roots in Ruby on Rails and database work with pragmatic delivery practices—earlier roles include scaling a Rails platform to 50k+ devices and introducing continuous delivery on AWS. He contributes to open-source tooling for Rails compatibility and database indexing automation, keeping legacy systems healthy while modernizing stacks. Known for turning regulatory and localization complexity into reliable platform features, he excels at shipping operationally resilient systems used company-wide. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical manager who still rolls up his sleeves to solve thorny integration and performance issues.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
rubygems10
databases10
rails10
migration10
ruby10
sql10
screen-shot10
activerecord10
adb10
ruby-on-rails10
database10
android9
maven6
rake6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plentz/lol_dba
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed. Also, it can generate .sql migration scripts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:33 commits, 64 PRs, 255 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to version updates and Rails compatibility improvements within the `lol_dba` project. Their work involved updating the gem's version and adapting the codebase to support newer versions of Rails, specifically Rails 6 and 7. The user also modified the testing setup by updating the schema and related files to ensure compatibility with new Rails versions.
scandisplaysdatabase-migrationsmigration-scriptssql-migration
plentz/jquery-maskmoney
Feb 2015 - Feb 2023
jQuery plugin to mask data entry in the input text in the form of money (currency).
Contributions:11 PRs, 23 pushes, 72 comments in 8 years
masktext-inputjqueryjavascriptcurrency
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