Michael Angell
Senior Developer at Evulse
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarMichael Angell is a Senior Developer based in Brisbane with six years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems. Currently at Evulse and previously contributing as a Senior Technology Developer for Shopify Plus APAC, he focuses on pragmatic, maintainable solutions that scale. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive fixes and feature additions to Shopify's widely used Liquid templating engine—improving performance, code quality, and template capabilities like adding support for "as" in Render/Include tags. He brings a keen eye for refactoring and reducing technical debt, demonstrated by RuboCop-driven cleanups and removing unused lazy-load code. Collaborative and product-aware, he balances developer ergonomics with customer-facing reliability.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
develop10
ruby10
refactor9
refactoring9
performance-optimization8
testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/liquid
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 73 PRs, 159 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `shopify/liquid` repository by addressing bug fixes, implementing new features, and resolving various issues. Their work involved bumping minimum version requirements, refactoring code to resolve RuboCop issues, and removing unnecessary code related to lazy load stacks. The user also added usage tracking within the `liquid` gem, indicating a focus on improving its performance and maintainability. Additionally, the user integrated new features, such as support for `as` within the `Render` and `Include` tags, and ensured overall code quality.
markup-language
manishbharvey/liquid
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Contributions:23 commits in 10 days
markup-language
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