James Reid-smith
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Reid-smith is a senior software engineer based in Ottawa with 14 years of industry experience and a deep specialization in Ruby on Rails back-end development. He has spent the bulk of his career at Shopify working on high-impact payments and commerce products such as Shopify Payments, Capital, Installments, and ROAS, and recently returned to Shopify after a stint as a founder/CEO. Skilled across relational and NoSQL databases, deployment, JavaScript, and Agile delivery, he blends pragmatic system design with operational know-how for production-scale services. His background includes early projects building web apps for mesh networking visualization and consumer platforms, showing a knack for translating real-world data into actionable interfaces. Comfortable leading complex backend initiatives, he pairs long-term product stewardship with hands-on coding and deployment.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
inbox10
shopify10
markup-language10
notification10
android10
react-native9
ios9
cross-platform9
ruby9
rails9
mobile9
rdoc9
react9
shopify-app8
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sunblaze/octobox
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
:postbox: Take back control of your GitHub Notifications
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
inboxnotificationsnotificationpostboxgithub-notifications
Shopify/minfraud-ruby
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
Ruby interface to the MaxMind minFraud API service.
Contributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
maxmindruby
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