Josh Faigan
Software Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Faigan is a software engineer at Shopify who transitioned from a decade-long career in financial advising to software development through Shopify's Dev Degree program. He brings deep client-facing experience in investments, mortgages, and complex credit lending, which informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to backend engineering. Since joining Shopify as a DevDegree intern in 2022, he progressed to a backend developer intern and now a full software engineer, blending analytical rigor with product-minded execution. Based in Ottawa, he leverages financial domain knowledge to build reliable systems that consider edge-case risk and real-world business constraints. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex financial requirements into clear technical solutions and his steady trajectory from finance to production-grade engineering. Josh’s background makes him particularly skilled at bridging cross-functional teams where finance and engineering intersect.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Barowsky School of Business – Dominican University of California
English, French
Github Skills (35)
markup10
parser10
shopify10
oclif10
textmate10
typescript10
haml10
intellisense10
language-server10
markup-language10
liquid10
hydrogen10
cli10
ecommerce9
pterodactyl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EvilGenius13/KT
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
Voice bot for game night
Contributions:82 PRs, 87 pushes, 58 branches in 5 months
EvilGenius13/Anonymoose
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:113 PRs, 99 pushes, 96 branches in 2 months
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