Jacob erickson
Senior Software Developer, Subscriptions at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJacob Erickson is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of experience building subscription and payments systems at Shopify, spanning frontend, backend, and devops. He combines hands-on implementation with technical writing and design sensibilities, helping teams translate complex billing and payments requirements into maintainable systems. Having progressed through multiple roles at Shopify from Junior Developer to senior specialist, he brings deep product-domain knowledge of commerce platform constraints and edge cases. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs academic grounding from the University of Toronto with practical startup and bank experience at TradeRev and Scotiabank. Jacob maintains a public technical presence (jaruserickson.com) and focuses on shipping reliable, well-documented services that scale for millions of merchants.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science (H.BSc.) Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science (H.BSc.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English
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Github Skills (32)
react8
python8
android8
ios8
react-native8
mobile7
cross-platform6
shopify6
webhooks4
linear-regression4
api4
authentication4
regression3
desktop-wallpaper3
recommendation-engine3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jaruserickson/cyclepaper
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
🚴🏻♂️cycle your desktop wallpaper through your favourite subreddit's top posts.
Contributions:2 releases, 62 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
desktop-wallpaper
jaruserickson/jaruserickson.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:223 commits, 169 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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