James Kirkpatrick
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kirkpatrick is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering teams, now at Shopify. An Olympian and long-time national team athlete, he brings elite-team discipline to product-driven development, mentorship, and engineering culture. He has deep expertise across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and edge computing (including Cloudflare Workers), and champions testing, CI/CD, and feature-flag release practices. James progressed from lead developer roles at startups to Associate Technical Director at Electronic Arts, combining hands-on delivery with architectural oversight. Based in Vancouver, he also serves on the board of Field Hockey Canada, applying governance and strategic planning skills outside tech. That blend of high-performance sport, product intuition, and infrastructure-focused engineering makes him a pragmatic leader for complex, user-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemistry (Honours), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemistry (Honours) at University of VictoriaWeb Development Bootcamp, Web Development Bootcamp at Lighthouse Labs
Github Skills (92)
isomorphic10
typesafe10
fastify9
solidjs9
server-side-rendering9
react9
router9
vue9
vault8
hashicorp8
javascript8
state-management8
ios8
react-native8
rpc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
autotelic/react-resolve-dependencies
May 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:66 PRs, 57 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
autotelic/ietf-hmac-signatures
Oct 2020 - Apr 2025
Methods to construct and verify HMAC signatures based on the IETF draft standard
Contributions:9 reviews, 12 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 6 months
hmac
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