Ju Liu
Staff Engineer at Shopify
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJu Liu is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience building maintainable, well-tested software and shaping strong engineering cultures at companies like Shopify and NoRedInk. He specializes in Ruby, Elm, JavaScript, and Elixir, and brings a pragmatic blend of OOP, TDD discipline, and an appreciation for functional programming to large open-source and production projects. At Shopify he contributed to the popular open-source TypeScript CLI, adding deployment workflows and integrations with the Partners API, demonstrating a knack for developer tooling and real-world deployment challenges. He mentors teams on sustainable practices, introduces patterns for maintainability, and is comfortable operating deep in the stack—from shell and Vim to CI and Kubernetes. An experienced public speaker and perpetual learner, he pairs academic roots in networking algorithms with hands-on consulting and product engineering experience. Off-hours he’s an Italian climber who tries to write code that “doesn’t suck,” even if he says he rarely succeeds.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program, Computer Science, Exchange program, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Alta Scuola PolitecnicaBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (19)
apim10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
shopify-cli10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
typescripts10
deployment-automation10
oclif9
ruby9
nodejs9
ruby-on-rails9
bundler6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/cli
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 154 reviews, 192 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ju implemented a "yarn deploy" command for the Shopify CLI, indicating a focus on deployment workflows. They contributed code for uploading application bundles, generating signed URLs, and integrating with the Shopify Partners API to create deployments. They also made changes to the UI extension and function code, and fixed a bug in the code.
cliecommercehydrogenoclifthemes
ConnectionMaster/builds
Jul 2009 - Mar 2010
All my AUR packages
Contributions:61 commits in 8 months
linuxaurarchlinuxaur-packages
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