J Davis
Engineering Manager at Shopify
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJ Davis is an engineering manager with a decade of hands-on experience building and leading teams that deliver scalable, full-stack web and microservice architectures. Currently at Shopify after senior technology leadership at ChannelApe, he has driven backend rewrites, containerized deployments, and integrations across Shopify, eBay, and BigCommerce while coaching teams in TDD, BDD, and agile practices. He pairs deep technical ownership—designing core REST APIs, asynchronous workflow engines, and resilient AWS deployments—with people leadership, instituting on-call rotations, code dojos, and deployment best practices. Known for turning complex ecommerce workflows into maintainable microservices, he also brings a knack for operational reliability, having mirrored services to prevent outages and automated production alerting. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines pragmatic engineering discipline with a quick ability to learn new technologies across the entire stack.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Penn State ScrantonBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at King's College
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Github Skills (40)
shopify-api10
shopify10
sdk10
rest10
rest-api10
java9
rest-client9
api9
typescript8
orders8
bigcommerce8
javascript8
ecommerce8
docker-container7
angularjs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rjdavis3/ebay-sdk
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 86 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
ChannelApe/generator-channelape
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Scaffold out a node module
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
scaffoldnode-modulenodejsnpmnode
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