Elijah Mcpherson
Director Of Engineering at Shopify
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolElijah Mcpherson is a Director of Engineering based in Boulder, Colorado with 11 years of experience building and leading teams focused on distributed systems, real-time storage, and high-throughput backend platforms. He has progressed from hands-on web and PHP development to senior engineering leadership roles at Shopify, Splunk, and several mid-size companies, bringing practical product empathy to system-level architecture decisions. Known for turning operational complexity into reliable, scalable services, he combines people-first management with deep technical oversight across CI/CD, observability, and data pipelines. Elijah’s career path reflects a balance of startup agility and enterprise rigor, and he often steps back into code to prototype solutions that shape long-term platform direction.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MacMurray College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
nodejs8
monitor7
typescript7
application-monitoring7
typesafe7
newrelic7
react7
grpc7
logging6
protobuf6
doctrine-orm6
php6
entity-framework6
symfony6
entity6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eglizzy/types-first-api
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
A set of tools and libraries for building typesafe grpc and http apis, based on protobuffers.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
typesafegrpctypescriptprotobuf
eglizzy/mc-core
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 28 days
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