Melanie Wang
Senior Software Engineering at Jane App
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMelanie Wang is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience building and maintaining backend systems, currently at Jane.app after a recent senior role at Shopify. She has deep Ruby/Rails expertise and a strong track record contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Shopify CLI and Shopify API gems, focusing on secure configuration, analytics controls, and test-driven feature work. Melanie blends production incident handling ("bringing down prod") with thoughtful developer ergonomics, having improved logging, OAuth/session handling, and backwards-compatible upgrades to Rails 7. As a Toronto Ruby co-organizer and frequent contributor across Ruby and Python libraries, she actively shapes community tooling and documentation. Her background in data science and full-stack internships gives her a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary perspective when solving backend problems. Colleagues rely on her for clean refactors, robust tests, and clear communication between platform, security, and product teams.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering/Industrial Management, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering/Industrial Management at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
shopify-api10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
shopify-cli10
ruby10
command-line10
version-control10
oauth10
cli10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 56 reviews, 543 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Melanie primarily focused on implementing and testing a new configuration option for enabling/disabling anonymous usage reporting (analytics) in the Shopify CLI. Their work involved creating and integrating a new subcommand, "analytics," with options to enable, disable, and check the status of the feature. The user's commits also included modifying existing configuration commands and adding tests for the new functionality, demonstrating a focus on feature development and code quality. Moreover, they were responsible for adjusting message grammar and fixing rubocop offenses, improving the readability and maintainability of the code.
shopifyshopify-cli
Shopify/shopify_python_api
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
ShopifyAPI library allows Python developers to programmatically access the admin section of stores
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 63 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Melanie primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Shopify API library. Their work included implementing new features, such as `update_tracking` functionality, and creating corresponding tests to ensure proper behavior. The user also focused on adding support for newer Python versions and updating the library's versioning. Furthermore, the user added and tested new functionalities around fulfillment events.
pythonshopify-api
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