Nathan Ferguson
Staff Web Developer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Ferguson is a Staff Web Developer at Shopify with 11 years of experience building performant, accessible storefronts and leading cross-functional frontend teams. He progressed through roles from theme specialist to staff-level leadership, combining hands-on Shopify theme engineering with people management and product-facing responsibilities. An active contributor to notable open-source tooling—such as improvements to Shopify's popular Slate theme toolkit—he blends UI polish, maintainable refactors, and practical tracking/analytics enhancements. Comfortable across front-end and release-focused backend tasks, Nathan pairs a marketing and multimedia education with deep production experience shipping ecommerce solutions at scale. A Montreal-based engineer, he brings both operational rigor (versioning and release work) and a designer’s attention to user experience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeInternational Marketing, International Marketing at NEOMA Business SchoolHonours Baccalaureate of Commerce Specialization in Marketing, Honours Baccalaureate of Commerce Specialization in Marketing at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (9)
liquid10
release-management10
javascript10
versioning10
ruby10
payment9
html9
css9
sass8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/payment_icons
Jun 2018 - May 2019
An easy to use library that allows you to manage and access payment icons
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 32 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to version bumping within the project. They updated the version number in the `lib/payment_icons/version.rb` file across multiple commits. Their work involved incrementing the version number to reflect software updates. This suggests a focus on release management and ensuring the project's versioning is properly maintained.
paymentsrailspayment-iconspaymentspree
Shopify/slate
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Slate is a toolkit for developing Shopify themes. It's designed to assist your workflow and speed up the process of developing, testing, and deploying themes.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 76 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on improving the Shopify theme development toolkit, Slate. They implemented UI enhancements, including adding links and visual elements to the documentation's sidebar. The user also addressed code quality by removing hardcoded strings and refactoring code to use data attributes, improving the codebase's maintainability. Furthermore, the user added tracking for zip file downloads and enhanced the cart and product template with the usage of product drops and compare at price logic.
deployingworkflowdevelopingspeedslate
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