James Go
Technical Lead Engineering Managner at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Go is a technical lead and engineering manager with a decade of hands-on experience building mobile applications, SDKs, and mobile security solutions from freelance projects to enterprise products. He has led iOS SDK architecture and development at ForgeRock and Broadcom/CA, and now drives technical direction at Shopify while maintaining a long-running freelance practice. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor work and people leadership, he combines deep platform-level iOS expertise with pragmatic product thinking and security-first design. Based in Vancouver, he pairs a Computer Science diploma with a business graduate diploma, reflecting both technical depth and strategic insight. Notably, his career shows a consistent focus on secure mobile SDKs—an area where he has shaped integrations used in identity and enterprise security contexts.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma of Business Administration, Graduate Diploma of Business Administration at Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser UniversityDiploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Langara College
English, Korean
Github Skills (29)
sdk10
forgerock10
ios9
networking9
gateway9
api9
tvos9
watchos9
swift9
macos8
api-gateway7
opentelemetry6
in-app-purchase3
android3
render3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ForgeRock/forgerock-ios-sdk
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
ForgeRock Mobile iOS SDK
Contributions:10 releases, 35 reviews, 335 commits in 1 year 8 months
forgerockios-sdkiossdk
jhoongo/opentelemetry-swift
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
OpenTelemetry API for Swift
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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