Gary Mardell
Software Engineer at Asset
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Mardell is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable systems and improving performance across startups and high-growth companies. Based in Vancouver, he has led technical efforts at Shopify—where he helped re-architect and scale billing for hundreds of thousands of merchants—and later drove real-time GraphQL, Redis-based ephemeral storage, and background job features as an engineering contractor at Gadget. He combines hands-on systems work (Redis Lua scripting, Temporal orchestration, profiling and virtualized rendering) with team leadership and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration from his time leading teams at Bench Accounting. Known for finding subtle security and performance issues in production, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to designing resilient services and improving developer workflows.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (72)
programming-language10
esoteric-language10
lucky-framework10
compiler10
stack-based10
flarum10
vanilla-forums10
encoder9
hotel-booking9
language-design9
polaris9
php9
forum9
decoder9
spree8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
garymardell/oxide
Jan 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 171 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 3 months
garymardell/progressrus
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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