Erin Ren
Development Manager at Shopify
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolErin Ren is a Development Manager at Shopify in Kitchener, Ontario, leading a 14-engineer team focused on building Shopify Functions and delivering backend systems. With seven years of experience and a long engineering tenure that stretches back through senior roles at Shopify and BlackBerry, she blends hands-on backend and full-stack expertise with people leadership. Erin’s background in infrastructure and application development gives her a strong systems-oriented perspective on scalable, reliable product design. She holds both a BMath and an MMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, bringing rigorous academic training to practical engineering challenges. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic coach who elevates team velocity while maintaining technical quality. An understated strength is her ability to translate complex platform constraints into developer-friendly tooling that accelerates adoption across teams.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (4)
oclif10
shopify-cli10
shopify9
cli9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ErinRenNumber1/erin-ren-sandbox
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
ErinRenNumber1/tree-sitter-script-json
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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