Luke Hickin
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Hickin is a Senior Software Developer based in Vancouver with a solid full-stack background and two years of experience building Trust-focused products at Shopify. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Kubernetes, and GCP, and has hands-on experience across the stack from earlier roles using .NET Core, React, and AWS. Luke has moved from DevOps and infrastructure automation into product engineering, bringing a practical emphasis on reliable, zero-downtime deployments and developer-friendly tooling. Comfortable leading projects in agile teams, he pairs strong operational instincts with a product-first mindset to protect customers and ship quickly. A proactive problem-solver since his university days, he combines formal computer science training with real-world experience mentoring peers and improving development workflows.
2 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
CIE A Levels, CIE A Levels at Auckland Grammar SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Information Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Information Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (9)
language-server10
parser10
intellisense10
vscode-extension10
shopify10
oclif10
cli10
typescript9
linter9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lukeh-shopify/dawn
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
lukeh-shopify/dotfiles
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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