Graham Paye
Software Engineer at Shopify
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Paye is a Denver-based software engineer with nine years of experience building back-end systems, developer tooling, and CI/CD for cloud-native applications. He’s contributed to high-profile open-source Google Cloud Ruby projects—improving client libraries, auth tooling, and cross-platform CI pipelines—bringing practical DevOps rigor to library maintenance and testing. His career spans roles at Google and fast-moving companies like Bloomerang, Boon, and Shopify, where he blends API design, automation, and reliability work. Early experience in operations and sales analytics informs his pragmatic approach to shipping features that reduce manual overhead and improve developer workflows. Notably, he has a track record of making libraries and samples more testable and Windows-friendly, a detail that often goes overlooked in cloud SDKs.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hillsdale College
Github Skills (33)
ruby-rails10
google-cloud-platform10
apidoc10
api-client10
testing10
rspec10
authentication10
bash10
rails10
cicd10
ruby10
gcp10
vision-api10
api10
google-cloud10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-auth-library-ruby
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Google Auth Library for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 24 commits, 80 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily contributed to improving the Google Auth Library for Ruby. Their work includes adding warnings for the use of Cloud SDK credentials and fixing references to the CLIENT_ID_VAR. The user also implemented improvements to the test suite, including adding tests and making existing ones Windows friendly, enhancing the overall testing coverage. Furthermore, the user added initial configuration files for Kokoro CI/CD pipelines.
auth-librarygoogle-auth-libraryrailsrubygoogle-auth
googleapis/signet
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Signet is an OAuth 1.0 / OAuth 2.0 implementation.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 14 commits, 62 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily updated the codebase related to OAuth 2.0 implementation. They modified the `signet/oauth_2/client_spec.rb` file, updating authorization URLs and related configurations. Further contributions involved linking values related to token expiration, implementing constant time comparison for signatures, and refactoring the code. The changes also involved Ruby version and testing configurations.
signetoauth-2authenticationoauth2-provideroauth2
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