Michael Go
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Go is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building production-grade web platforms, currently contributing to Shopify's backend and enhancing the widely used Liquid templating engine. He founded and led engineering efforts as CTO at PropertyGuys.com, modernizing infrastructure with CI, Docker, and Terraform while exploring applied AI for real estate. A repeat founder (InputKit) and early hacker who began shipping code at 16, Michael blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with large-team delivery. He mentors and teaches young developers, believing broadening the developer population multiplies real-world innovation. Based in Moncton, Canada, he pairs hands-on systems work with meaningful open-source contributions that improve template evaluation and robustness in customer-facing apps.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Riverview High School
Github Skills (10)
liquid10
conditionals10
template-engine10
condition10
logical10
ruby10
testing9
unit-test9
minitest9
rspec9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/liquid
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 23 reviews, 13 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `shopify/liquid` repository by enhancing the Liquid markup language. Their commits introduce and refine the `to_liquid_value` helper, impacting how variables and conditional statements are evaluated. The user modified core Liquid components, including tags like `if`, `unless`, and `case`, as well as the `default` filter. These changes likely improve the flexibility and robustness of the Liquid template engine.
hamltemplatemarkup-languageliquidweb-apps
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