James Langille
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Langille is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure and backend systems for companies from LinkedIn and Shopify to startups like Hireguide. He prefers strongly typed languages and clean, maintainable code, and has repeatedly improved delivery and reliability—most notably scaling Shopify's webhook/event delivery system by an order of magnitude. James pairs technical depth (Go, TypeScript, Python, Java) with business insight from dual degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration, enabling solutions that align with product and operational goals. He enjoys modernizing legacy stacks and has led migrations and monorepo prototypes to move teams toward TypeScript/NestJS and Nx-based architectures. A collaborative remote worker based in Ajax, Ontario, he champions fairness, feedback, and test-driven practices and has served as a technical advisor and seminar leader on engineering process improvements. Not obvious from titles alone: he’s been the go-to engineer for high-impact scaling and platform projects that reduce organizational complexity and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor Business Administration, Coop, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Honors Bachelor Business Administration, Coop, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityHonors Bachelor Computer Science, Coop, Computer Science, Honors Bachelor Computer Science, Coop, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (87)
memoized-selectors10
hotel-booking10
redux10
shopify-api9
elasticsearch-plugin9
relevance9
rsp9
polaris9
react9
shopify9
integrate9
spree8
django8
rest8
integrations8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JamesHageman/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
JamesHageman/redux-datagrid
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 29 PRs, 63 pushes in 14 days
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