Ilya Grigorik
Distinguished Engineer, Technical Advisor To The CEO at Shopify
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolIlya Grigorik is a distinguished engineer and technical advisor to Shopify's CEO, focused on making commerce faster, more secure, and deeply engaging on the open web. With roots as a founder and early entrepreneur, he built and scaled PostRank to acquisition and ran a successful hosting/security business before joining Google, where he led web performance efforts and developer relations. He co-chaired the W3C Web Performance Working Group and helped incubate 15+ browser primitives, authored High Performance Browser Networking, and launched tools like Chrome UX Report that shaped how sites measure and optimize UX. Comfortable shifting between product, standards, and engineering leadership, he blends hands-on platform expertise (iOS/macOS/Android development since 2009) with strategic influence across industry and open web communities. Based in Portland and trained at University of Waterloo, he’s known for translating deep protocol and tooling knowledge into practical improvements that move billions of web interactions. An unconventional detail: despite senior leadership roles, he still publishes technical work and speaks widely, maintaining a strong public developer footprint.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (51)
fonts10
local-notifications10
notification10
ios9
push-notifications9
ruby9
websocket9
http9
android9
automation9
android-apps9
firebase9
swift8
flutter8
fastlane8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ILYA-2606/SwiftUIGuideline
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 7 months
ILYA-2606/flutter_screen_recording
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A new Flutter plugin for record the screen.
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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