Joel Gerber
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Lambton Shores, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Gerber is a senior engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience building resilient infrastructure, developer platforms, and secure services across telco and cloud environments. Currently on Shopify’s privacy engineering team, he blends deep systems and network expertise with modern software practices to protect merchant and customer data. He has led platform initiatives—designing self-scaling GitLab on Kubernetes, distributed build systems, and mission-critical Go services—and mentored teams in TDD, Agile, and test-driven culture. An active open-source contributor, Joel extended the popular go-gitlab SDK to integrate DataDog and tidied docs for the xonsh shell, showing a rare mix of low-level networking chops and developer ergonomics focus. Based in Lambton Shores, Ontario, he’s known for reframing problems and delivering pragmatic, auditable solutions that reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Technologist, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician, Computer Engineering Technologist, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Lambton College
Stackoverflow
617reputation
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13answers
2questions
Github Skills (21)
python10
apidoc10
gitlab-api10
go10
api10
sdk10
datadog10
documentation10
testing9
xonsh9
shell8
cli7
logging6
pypi6
twine6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
xanzy/go-gitlab
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
GitLab Go SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on extending the `go-gitlab` Go SDK to support integrations with the DataDog service. They added functionality for retrieving, setting, and deleting DataDog service settings, including properties like API keys, URLs, and configuration options. The user also introduced example code demonstrating how to utilize the newly implemented DataDog integration features within the SDK. Furthermore, they added support for URI parameters for service settings and added missing settings.
golanggitlab-cigitlab-apigitlabsdk
xonsh/xonsh
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
:shell: Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 45 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on correcting spelling errors within the documentation, docstrings, comments, and text strings of the xonsh project. They also addressed spelling mistakes in local variable names and performed minor grammar adjustments. These changes span across various files, including code files and documentation, ensuring consistency and clarity in the project's written content.
unixiterm2pythonsystem-administrationxonsh
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