Kevin Jalbert
Staff Software Developer at Shopify
Courtice, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Jalbert is a Staff Software Developer at Shopify with 15 years of experience building and leading web and backend systems, primarily in Ruby on Rails. He has advanced from hands-on engineering to team leadership roles, driving architecture and developer experience improvements across products including real-time websocket and GraphQL systems. At theScore he led multiple cross-platform initiatives (React, React Native, Elixir/Phoenix) and helped professionalize hiring, coding standards, and on-call practices. An active open-source contributor, he improved the popular graphql-ruby project’s JavaScript client with AST-based refactors, Jest snapshot tests, and new output formats. Academically grounded with an M.Sc. in Computer Science and early research on automated bug repair, he blends rigorous problem-solving with pragmatic delivery. Based in Courtice, Ontario, he’s known for quickly learning new stacks and optimizing developer workflows behind the scenes.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering, 3.44 / 4.30, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering, 3.44 / 4.30 at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
wpgraphql10
jestjs10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
ruby9
github-api9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
unit-testing8
graphql-ruby7
ruby-on-rails6
react6
activemodelserializers6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rmosolgo/graphql-ruby
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Ruby implementation of GraphQL
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the JavaScript client component of the GraphQL Ruby project. Their work included fixing typos in the CLI, adding features like the `__typename` option, and refactoring code to support the `addTypename` functionality using AST transformations. Additionally, the user added and updated tests, using snapshot testing with Jest, to improve verification of the client's behavior. The user also refactored the code to support new file types and new out file option, allowing for wider use of the client.
relayrailsrubygraphqlgraphql-ruby
kevinjalbert/latex-presentation-template
Dec 2011 - Nov 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 7 years 11 months
presentationlatex-templatebeamerlatex-beamerlatex
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