Nick Presta
Principal Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNick Presta is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently leading core analytics and platform work at Shopify from Toronto. He has advanced from backend and infrastructure roles to strategic engineering leadership, shaping architectures, developer tooling, and analytics surfaces that power merchant dashboards and reports. At Wave he drove enterprise architecture, rebuilt front-end systems and payments platforms, and led initiatives that measurably improved adoption and payment volume. Comfortable across backend services, payments, identity and frontend design systems, he blends hands-on delivery with mentorship and cross-team coordination. Known for turning complex financial and analytics domains into pragmatic, scalable systems, he favors building frameworks and processes that elevate developer productivity.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B. Comp., Computer Science, B. Comp., Computer Science at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (200)
lexer10
ui-components10
testing10
drag10
protoc10
component-library10
linter10
html10
storybook-addon10
shopify10
apm10
svelte10
static-code-analysis10
user-interface10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nickpresta/chameleon
Jul 2014 - May 2016
Caching reverse proxy for testing written in Go
Contributions:4 releases, 41 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
cachinggoreverse-proxytesting
nickpresta/go-wave-workshop
May 2015 - Jul 2020
Something that can be `go get`'d to bootstrap our Wave workshop
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
bootstrapgo
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