Duncan Uszkay
Senior Software Developer at D2L
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDuncan Uszkay is a senior software developer with a decade of experience building extensible, production-grade platforms, most recently moving from a long tenure at Shopify to D2L. He specializes in backend systems, WebAssembly hosting and execution, and developer tooling—having driven the Scripts platform that lets third parties inject custom logic safely into core products. His work on Shopify CLI and contributions to AssemblyScript (including implementing closures and dependency/build fixes) show a practical focus on build reliability and runtime compatibility in real deployment environments. Based in Waterloo, he combines deep systems engineering with open-source collaboration and a knack for turning compiler and runtime challenges into developer-friendly tooling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (7)
dependency-management10
assemblyscript10
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
shopify-cli10
devops9
nodejs8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 74 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Duncan primarily focused on updating and maintaining the build and dependency management aspects of the Shopify CLI project. They bumped the `as-pect` version to incorporate a WASI fix, removed an accidental dependency, and upgraded the AssemblyScript version. Additionally, the user made changes to ensure compatibility with the spin environment and incorporated fixes for partner proxy bypass. These contributions show a focus on improving the project's build process, dependency management and integration with deployment environments.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
DuncanUszkay1/assemblyscript
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Definitely not a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler 🚀
Contributions:24 PRs, 139 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 2 months
javascriptwebassemblycompilerassemblyscripttypescript
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