Jay Laiche
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Senden, Bavaria, United States
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Top SchoolJay Laiche is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in front-end web development while maintaining strong full-stack fluency, currently driving product and technical work at Shopify. He progressed through engineering and management roles at Capital One, blending hands-on implementation with team leadership and delivery across complex web platforms. Jay excels at building intuitive, performant user experiences and pragmatic systems that scale, informed by a Professional Writing (Web) background from Virginia Tech. He’s comfortable across the stack—UI, APIs, and engineering processes—and consistently moves between coding, product thinking, and mentorship. Based in Senden, Bavaria, he brings a remote-friendly, cross-cultural perspective shaped by long-standing distributed work. Colleagues would note his rare mix of creative content roots and production-grade engineering discipline that helps turn UX intent into reliable shipped features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Professional Writing - Web Concentration, BA Professional Writing - Web Concentration at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (105)
testing10
component-library10
inline-svg10
javascript10
figma-plugin10
firefox10
api10
svgr10
gatsby10
test-automation10
design-tokens10
layout10
shopify10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LA1CH3/personal-site
May 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
LA1CH3/jaylaiche.com
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
code for my personal website, jaylaiche.com. next.js, stitches, mdx
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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