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.
9 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 (128)
fastify10
location10
isomorphic10
server-side-rendering10
react10
rendering9
javascript9
solidjs9
params9
server-side9
caching9
redux9
typesafe9
boilerplate9
state-management9
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/redux-core-reducers
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
A collection of re-usable and configurable reducers for redux applications
Contributions:2 releases, 59 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reactconfigurablereducerreducersredux
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