James Vidler
Staff Software Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Vidler is a Staff Software Developer based in Old Toronto with nine years of experience building cloud-native web and commerce platforms and leading cross-functional teams. He progressed from support and hands-on development roles into senior technical and product leadership, including VP-level positions focused on customer success, onboarding, and integrations. Now at Shopify, he combines architecture and front-end expertise—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Shopify CLI and UI extension integrations—with a pragmatic operator’s sensibility. Colleagues know him for bridging developer experience and operational reliability while shipping customer-facing features. He brings a practical blend of product empathy and technical depth, often resurfacing small but impactful fixes (like restoring a React import) that keep large ecosystems humming.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Technology, Information Technology, Computer Systems Technology, Information Technology at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
shopify10
cli10
oclif9
gatsby6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/cli
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on updating and maintaining the integration of UI extensions within the Shopify CLI. Their contributions involved bumping the version of the `@shopify/checkout-ui-extensions-react` library across different parts of the project, including `packages/app/src/cli/constants.ts` and `packages/ui-extensions-go-cli/support/merge_config.rb`. They also made a minor change, adding back a React import in a UI extension template, indicating a focus on the front-end development and integration with React components.
cliecommercehydrogenoclifthemes
jamesvidler/zendoc
Jul 2019 - Oct 2023
A CLI to import zendesk articles into the help center from markdown files.
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
centerhelp-centerzendeskmarkdowncli
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