Douglas Edey
Software Engineering Manager at Slice
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Edey is a Software Engineering Manager based in Ottawa with over a decade of hands-on experience across startups and scale-ups, and four years in senior engineering leadership roles. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL, while also bringing practical experience in Java, Python, Go, Rust, C++, and C#, plus infrastructure know-how with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. Douglas has a strong track record in reliability and incident management from founding work on Shopify’s Resiliency team, as well as pragmatic performance optimizations such as a 15% memory reduction through Marshal serialization. He excels at mentorship, documentation, and cross-functional delivery, routinely bridging product, UX, and operations to ship complex integrations quickly. Equally comfortable leading teams or diving into code, he prefers collaborative environments and is known for rapid, shipping-focused problem solving. Outside work he’s a reliable event MC and insists karaoke is excellent team-building.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technology B English Literature B; B; B Chemistry B Information Technology B Physics; German A Business Studies B, Technology B English Literature B; B; B Chemistry B Information Technology B Physics; German A Business Studies B at Chatham Grammar School ForBSc Software Engineering, BSc Software Engineering at Teesside University
French
Github Skills (7)
react9
vscode-extension9
component-library9
design-tokens9
typescript8
figma-plugin8
shopify8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Tamsin-Shopify/finstagram
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
tutorial for lighthouse labs web fundamentals
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 month
fundamentalslighthouselighthouse-labs
Shopify/polaris
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
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