Greg Dodd
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Dodd is a Senior Software Engineer at Shopify with eight years of experience building knowledge management systems, AI-assisted authoring and editing tools, and content automation that bridge technical writing and engineering. He progressed from technical writer roles into technical leadership, uniquely blending documentation craft with hands-on software development to ship both developer and author-facing products. Based in Ottawa, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science and an Economics BA with a background in electrical engineering, enabling a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to product design. Greg has a history of shipping business management software at LightMachinery while leading Shopify initiatives, showing a knack for turning editorial workflows into scalable engineering solutions. Notably, his career trajectory reflects deep domain expertise in doc tooling and automation—often an overlooked but crucial lever for developer productivity and content quality.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics at Carleton UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Ottawa
English
Github Skills (22)
git9
checkout9
github9
square9
credit9
collections8
retext8
apple-pay8
api8
sdk8
polaris8
credit-card8
shopify8
patch7
storekit7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/linter-rorybot
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Atom linter plugin using rory to catch Shopify style guide violations.
Contributions:5 releases, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
linterviolationsstyle-guideatom-linterrory
gregdodd/ai-experiments
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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