Melvin Adu
Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMelvin Adu is a software engineer at Shopify with nine years of experience blending technical craft with behavioral economics to uncover why customers buy. He progressed internally from technical specialist and marketing channels roles into engineering, giving him a rare product-and-marketing-informed perspective on building merchant-facing features. As a former founder of an ecommerce marketing agency and a City of Toronto small business grant recipient, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering. Based in Old Toronto, he leverages a Commerce background in economics, finance and computer science to translate data-driven insights into practical, revenue-focused product improvements.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Economics & Finance Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Economics & Finance Computer Science at University of Guelph
Github Skills (11)
figma-plugin10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
react10
shopify10
github9
typescript9
git9
patch7
subversion5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
melvinadu/hello-world
Apr 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
melvinadu/lotide
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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