Merwan Rodriguez
Staff Developer at Shopify
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMerwan Rodriguez is a Staff Developer and UI engineer with 14 years of experience building performant, user-focused web applications from enterprise to publishing and e-commerce. Based in Seattle, he currently drives front-end architecture at Shopify after leading subscription and growth engineering at The Washington Post, where his rework of on-site notifications cut render time by 59% to roughly 300ms. He combines hands-on coding with product-minded tooling—having built internal configuration systems to enable rapid marketing experiments—and has a long history of front-end and full-stack work dating back to eBay, Lockheed Martin, and early .NET/T-SQL systems. Merwan’s strengths lie in performance optimization, pragmatic architecture, and turning complex business requirements into maintainable developer workflows.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
French, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (48)
ui-components10
client-side-rendering10
server-side-rendering10
isomorphic10
dom10
nodejs10
frontend10
javascript9
css9
lasso-js9
html9
templating8
textmate8
shopify8
shipit8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
merwan7/sublime-marko
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Language Definitions for the Marko-js templating language
Contributions:7 releases, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 3 months
jstemplating
merwan7/Japanese-JSON
Aug 2012 - Jun 2018
Japanese JSON collections
Contributions:2 releases, 25 commits, 23 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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