James Lepp
Staff Engineer, Intellectual Property at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Lepp is a Staff Engineer at Shopify in Ottawa with 7 years of software-focused experience and a long history in standards, wireless protocols, and innovation engineering. He transitioned from two decades of technical leadership at BlackBerry—where he rose from wireless protocol specialist to senior standards manager—to driving Intellectual Property engineering and innovation initiatives at Shopify. James combines deep protocol and standards expertise with practical product engineering, often operating at the intersection of research, legal/standards compliance, and scalable software delivery. He holds a B.A.Sc from the University of Ottawa and has pursued further studies at McGill Law and Cornell, reflecting a rare blend of technical, regulatory, and legal curiosity. Known for moving between hands-on engineering and leadership roles, he brings pragmatic creativity to solving cross-disciplinary problems that require both technical rigor and policy awareness.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
McGill University – Faculty of LawCornell UniversityB.A.Sc, B.A.Sc at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (22)
shopify8
data-preprocessing6
react-native-app6
data-processing5
uicollectionview5
uitableview5
react-native5
machine-learning4
performance-monitoring4
swift4
user-interface3
ios3
artificial-intelligence3
tableview3
functional-programming3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jlepp/jlepp.github.io
Oct 2018 - Oct 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
jlepp/react-native-rsa-native-lite
May 2022 - Jul 2022
A native implementation of RSA key generation and encryption/decryption.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 month
cryptographykey-generationrsarsa-keyencryption
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