John Ellis
Senior Developer at Shopify
San Marcos, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ellis is a senior full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with 12 years of experience blending engineering, design, and photography to build thoughtful, human-centered web products. Currently at Shopify, he has driven front-end consolidation and design system work and previously led and scaled teams and platform improvements at Science Exchange. Comfortable from third-normal-form data modeling to typographic baseline grids in SASS, he pairs strong technical craft with a designer’s eye for detail. A former studio manager and freelance developer, he brings practical product sense for creative clients and an unconventional maker’s background as a woodworker and nomadic photographer. This mix of managerial experience, deep Rails expertise, and visual design fluency makes him effective at bridging UX, DX, and engineering priorities.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Commercial Photography, Certificate, Commercial Photography at Portfolio Center
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Github Skills (64)
cjs9
sorcery9
defaults9
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postmark8
authentication8
currency8
actionmailer8
rails8
crowd8
http-api7
heroku7
ruby7
iso7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SeriouslyAwesome/democratictravelers
Jun 2014 - Aug 2018
An Airstream adventure with a crowd-sourced itinerary.
Contributions:154 commits, 42 PRs, 79 pushes in 4 years 2 months
crowdgameitinerary
SeriouslyAwesome/howwastoday
May 2017 - Jul 2021
It's like Amazon reviews for your day.
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
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