Jonathan Myers
Software Engineer at Gusto
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Myers is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused systems across both backend and frontend domains, currently on the engineering team at Gusto in Denver. He brings strong DevOps and site reliability foundations from prior roles (including SRE and senior DevOps positions) while shipping feature-level code—evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Shopify's shopify-api-ruby and Timber theme where he improved inventory APIs and responsive/Ajax cart behavior. Comfortable moving between infrastructure, automation, and UI, he has repeatedly bridged gaps between ops and product to improve performance and developer experience. His background in global management and international studies adds a strategic, cross-cultural perspective to technical problem solving and team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Tunghai UniversityBA International Political Economy, BA International Political Economy at University of Puget SoundMS Global Management, MS Global Management at Thunderbird School of Global ManagementBeijing Foreign Studies University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
minitest10
theme-development10
inventory-management-system10
sass10
responsive-design10
javascript10
shopify-api10
inventory-management10
shopify10
ruby10
rest-api9
ajax9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-api-ruby
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
ShopifyAPI is a lightweight gem for accessing the Shopify admin REST and GraphQL web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed to the development and enhancement of the Shopify API Ruby gem. Their work focused on implementing features related to inventory management, specifically adding methods to interact with inventory levels. They also added a method to retrieve inventory levels for a specific location. Further contributions included code style adjustments, packaging for a new release, and updating the minitest testcase class.
graphqlrestshopifyshopify-apiwebservice
Shopify/Timber
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
The ultimate Shopify theme framework, built by Shopify.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on modifying the Timber theme framework, specifically working on responsive design and Ajax cart functionality. Their contributions include refactoring the `@at-query` mixin for responsive design, fixing a bug related to responsive videos, and updating the terminology and styles associated with the Ajax cart feature. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and optimizing the theme's responsiveness.
shopify
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