Gurpreet Gill
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGurpreet Gill is a Staff Engineer based in Toronto with 11 years of experience designing and shipping full-stack web applications, currently leading engineering work at Shopify. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Shopify—from intern to staff—demonstrating strong domain knowledge in scalable product development and cross-functional collaboration. Gurpreet pairs front-end craftsmanship (contributions to open-source mental health app ifme highlight UI and UX-focused features like timepicker/calendar work) with practical back-end and DevOps experience gained earlier at Oracle and Scotiabank. He has a track record of performance improvements and automation—once improving runtime efficiency by 96% for a business reporting tool—and a habit of learning quickly and adapting to new challenges. Known for blending user-centered interfaces with reliable infrastructure, he brings a thoughtful, impact-driven approach to engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Co-op, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Co-op at University of Waterloo
English, Punjabi, Hindi
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Github Skills (11)
html10
javascript10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
calendars10
sc9
scs9
ruby8
webpack6
webpacker6
react4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 9 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gurpreet primarily contributed to the front-end of the "ifme" web application, focusing on user interface elements. Their work involved adding and modifying content on the contributors' page, including adding profiles and fixing formatting. They also started implementing a timepicker and calendar functionality for a form.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
gurpreetg/waterlooworks-now
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 50 PRs, 79 pushes in 9 months
chromechrome-extension
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