Drew Matheson
Staff Developer at Shopify
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Matheson is a Staff Developer with 12 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems and evolving access and staff-management tooling at Shopify. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, GraphQL, GCP) with operational leadership—owning on-call experience, incident readiness, and maintainability for multiple services. Drew has driven product launches and re-architectures across retail and SaaS domains, from multi-tenant backends and data connectors to IoT edge services and cross-platform tooling at SAP. He is known for improving developer workflows (advocating Git PRs, simplifying dependencies) and for making security and access controls practical for large merchant populations. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he pairs a puzzle-solving mindset with a continuous-learning ethos and a track record of mentoring teams through growth. An uncommon detail: he holds a perfect 4.0 GPA from Conestoga College, underscoring disciplined, high-quality delivery from early in his career.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario College Advanced Diploma (OCAD), Computer Programming, 4.0/4.0 GPA, 97% Overall Average, Ontario College Advanced Diploma (OCAD), Computer Programming, 4.0/4.0 GPA, 97% Overall Average at Conestoga College
English
Github Skills (47)
simulate10
alarm10
clock10
shopify9
testing9
github-issues9
design-tokens9
hotel-booking9
vscode-extension9
proxy9
tcp9
chaos9
component-library9
react9
github8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DAmatheson/DAmatheson.github.io
Apr 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 20 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Shopify/scim_rails
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
SCIM Adapter for Rails.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
railsrubyadapterscim
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