Gabriel Lacroix
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolGabriel Lacroix is a Senior Software Engineer based in Québec with six years of hands-on experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Shopify. He is passionate about programming language design and systems-level software, with a particular enthusiasm for Rust and environmentally conscious tech. His trajectory from internships to senior roles at Shopify reflects rapid growth in large-scale event streaming and customer behaviour platforms. Earlier work at GHGSAT combined infrastructure, APIs, and automation—reducing manual deployment overhead while delivering user-facing permission and data access features. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript/React, and observability stacks, he blends practical engineering with thoughtful design. Outside of code, his volunteer leadership running role-playing groups hints at strong facilitation and mentoring skills.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, summa cum laude, Natural Sciences, High School Diploma, summa cum laude, Natural Sciences at Collège Saint-Charles-GarnierIB Diploma/DEC, Sciences pures et appliquées, IB Diploma/DEC, Sciences pures et appliquées at Cégep GarneauBachelor of Software Engineering , Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering , Computer Software Engineering at McGill University
French, English, Spanish, Chinese, German
Github Skills (129)
camelcase10
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programming-language10
snake-case10
beautify10
ruby10
spotify10
streaming10
fuzzy-logic10
batch10
rust10
java10
command-line-utility10
naming10
giphy10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Gadiguibou/stdrename
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
'stdrename' is a small command line utility to rename all files in a folder according to a specified naming convention (camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, etc.).
Contributions:5 releases, 82 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
kebab-caseunicornskebabsnakenaming-convention
Gadiguibou/rdapcheck
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
A simple RDAP library and command-line tool to check domain name availability in bulk. https://deno.land/x/rdapcheck
Contributions:2 releases, 43 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
command-line-tooldomain-discoveryavailabilitydomain-namedenoland
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