Gareth Du Plooy
Founding Team, Chief Architect at Medda Technologies
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Top SchoolGareth Du Plooy is a founding-team Chief Architect and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building production systems from startup to scale. Based in Winnipeg, he spent a decade at Shopify rising to Senior Staff Engineer, contributing to core backend features and improving API robustness—most notably to the popular shopify-api-ruby gem with JSON handling, fulfillment flows, and cursor pagination enhancements. He now blends hands-on engineering with product-driven architecture at Medda Technologies to drive patient-centred health ownership, while also contributing at Onward. Gareth brings deep expertise in backend systems, APIs, and platform reliability, tempered by practical leadership across small teams and large orgs. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who prefers solving hard integration and data-movement problems quietly but effectively.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Manitoba
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Github Skills (9)
json10
shopify-api10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
pagination9
testing9
activeresource8
spotify6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-api-ruby
Sep 2012 - Aug 2019
ShopifyAPI is a lightweight gem for accessing the Shopify admin REST and GraphQL web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 15 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Shopify API Ruby gem. Their work included modifying JSON encoding/decoding processes to align with Shopify's API, patching and reverting changes related to the JSON handling. They also added the capability to manage fulfillment requests, including opening and marking as failed. Furthermore, the user integrated relative cursor pagination for efficient data retrieval.
adminrailshotel-bookingpolarisweb-services
garethson/wice_grid
Jun 2020 - Feb 2025
A Rails grid plugin to create grids with sorting, pagination, and (automatically generated) filters
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
gridsfiltersrailspaginationruby
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