Mary Briskin
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMary Briskin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Victoria, BC with 11 years of experience building Ruby on Rails and JavaScript applications at Shopify and education-tech startup Tutored by Teachers. She combines deep backend skills in Ruby, C/C++, and SQL with front-end expertise using Knockout, jQuery, HAML/Slim, and testing tools like RSpec and Jasmine to deliver reliable, well-tested systems. Mary has progressed through developer to staff roles at Shopify, demonstrating an ability to scale products and mentor teams while leading engineering at a smaller company. Her background in psychology and business alongside computer science gives her a pragmatic, user-focused approach to technical decisions and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology Business Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Psychology Business Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Russian, Spanish, French, Hebrew
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Github Skills (82)
component-library10
client-library10
design-tokens10
vscode-extension10
js-client10
google-api10
jwt9
api9
figma-plugin9
amazon-ecs9
authentication9
aws-ecs9
oauth9
react9
shopify9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
marytal/TrumpThump
Nov 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
marytal/marytal.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:40 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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