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.
9 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 (45)
react8
android8
ios8
react-native8
cycle7
cross-platform7
python7
mobile6
wallpaper6
reddit5
linear-regression5
json5
recommendation-engine4
webhooks4
tumblr4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/example-app--credit-card-payments-app-template--remix
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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
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