Leigh Barnes
Lead Solutions Engineer at Shopify
Test Valley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
SeniorLeigh Barnes is a seasoned full-stack engineer and solutions architect with over a decade of experience building and scaling e-commerce platforms, now leading Solutions Engineering at Shopify. He blends hands-on product development with strategic technology leadership—having served as CTO, technical director, and founder for multiple agencies and infrastructure ventures focused on Shopify, themes, apps and enterprise retail. Comfortable across frontend, backend and cloud infrastructure, Leigh has repeatedly translated business strategy and risk management into robust commerce experiences for global merchants. Based in Test Valley, England, he pairs entrepreneurial grit from founding regional hosting and e-commerce businesses with a pragmatic focus on making commerce better for everyone. Notably, his career trajectory reflects a rare mix of agency, product and operator perspectives that help teams ship commercial-grade storefronts at scale.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (100)
lazyload10
browser9
srcset9
user-interaction9
prerender9
normal9
shopify-app9
aws-lambda-edge9
loader9
react9
interaction9
protected9
responsive-images9
lazy-loading9
lazy-evaluation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leighs-hammer/rural
Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
A country look up module for js apps neededing to normalize or use a standard base to get, ISO codes, currency info, capitals and more to follow.
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
lookisoiso-codesfollowjavascript
leighs-hammer/shopify-hmac-validation
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
A simple node package that takes in a full request or query string object and validates.
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
querytakesstringnode-packagejavascript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.