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 (34)
shopify-api10
shopify10
java10
sdk10
rest10
rest-api10
ecommerce9
catalog9
bigcommerce9
typescript9
rest-client9
javascript8
webservice7
angularjs7
android-emulator6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rjdavis3/rjdavis3.github.io
Jan 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
ChannelApe/channelape-typescript-consumer-service-sdk
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Common services, controllers, and models for ChannelApe TypeScript and JavaScript consumer services.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
javascripttypescript
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