Kevin Norman
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Norman is a senior software engineer with 10 years’ experience building scalable backend infrastructure, currently driving platform work at Shopify. He specializes in Golang and Ruby microservices, Kubernetes, and Terraform, with hands-on experience migrating systems to API Gateway, ALB, and Postgres. At Pusher he contributed to widely used libraries and added end-to-end encryption support, and at Mo he led teams through major infra and data migrations while onboarding engineers. Kevin pairs a master’s in Software Engineering (First Class) with a pragmatic focus on cost-efficient, production-grade systems — having saved thousands monthly in infrastructure at Pusher. Massively driven and comfortable in small teams, he also tinkers with electrical engineering in his spare time and maintains a memorable collection of ridiculous shirts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computing (Software Engineering), First Class (average 78%), Master of Engineering - MEng, Computing (Software Engineering), First Class (average 78%) at Swansea University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
php10
pusher10
encryption10
webhooks10
json9
testing8
composer7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pusher/pusher-http-php
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
PHP library for interacting with the Pusher Channels HTTP API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 36 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the PHP library for interacting with the Pusher Channels HTTP API. Their work involved adding signature validation for webhooks, testing the webhook data structure, and fixing related code issues. They also added end-to-end encryption support by implementing encryption and decryption functionalities, and updating the codebase to use JSON for encrypted message formatting. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the code and updated the version number.
php-librarypusherphpcomposer
kn100/warp
Nov 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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