Eric Walker
Director Of Engineering at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Walker is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently directing Shopify’s Products and Pricing group from Montreal where he blends hands-on coding with strategy to help merchants manage products, pricing, discounts and bundles. He has a track record scaling teams and shipping high-impact features—predictive storefront search, single-page checkout, subscriptions, bundles, and B2B price lists—while growing the org across North America and Europe. A former CTO and early-stage builder at Sonder and Navendis, he bridges product-focused full-stack development and operational rigor. Eric also contributes to open-source deployment tooling, improving Ruby app deployments and DevOps configs in the lightweight piku PaaS project, reflecting his penchant for pragmatic infrastructure work. He pairs technical depth with an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris, bringing both business acumen and engineering curiosity to product-led teams.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
AB Physics, AB Physics at Bowdoin CollegeLexington High SchoolMBA Finance and Entrepreneurship, MBA Finance and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris
English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
deploying10
python10
nginx10
paas10
ruby9
devops9
shell8
sh8
script8
scripting8
eclipse6
wpf6
dotnetnuke6
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
piku/piku
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the deployment process for Ruby applications and improving code quality through linting and style adjustments. They modified the codebase to handle bundler configurations within the virtual environment. Further contributions included making changes to file paths, and adjusting static paths within the nginx configuration, alongside minor lint fixes.
herokuraspberry-pipaaspythonpush
ewalk153/linux_smash
Apr 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
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