Jenny Shih
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJenny Shih is a Senior Engineer with 7 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently at Shopify after progressing from developer to senior engineer. She has a proven track record at PicCollage where she led backend projects, improved tail latency by 86%, and scaled services to handle 150k+ requests per minute. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails and Elixir with PostgreSQL, Redis and AWS, she emphasizes clean architecture, testing discipline, and mentoring — having coached interns and run internal study groups. Her background in languages and literature (NTU and an exchange at UCLA) gives her a strong communication edge for cross-functional collaboration. Based in Old Toronto, she blends production reliability with developer advocacy and a habit of turning performance goals into measurable outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bachelor's degree Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (28)
language-server-protocol10
vscode-extension10
ruby10
language-server10
clojurescript8
trello8
knowledge-graph8
graph8
markdown8
org-mode8
knowledge-management7
music7
mongodb6
vscode6
collaboration6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jenny-codes/wings
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
a rack-based Ruby web framework inspired by Rails, with abridged functionality and a better name
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 6 months
sinatrarailsrackrubyweb-framework
jenny-codes/qmk_firmware
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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