Nicolas Gnyra
Backend Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNicolas Gnyra is a backend developer with 11 years of software experience and a strong foundation from the University of Ottawa’s Software Engineering program. Currently at Shopify, he has progressed from intern to backend developer working on high-impact systems like Shopify Capital and modernizing monolithic codebases. Comfortable across Windows, macOS, and multiple Linux distributions, he has a track record of shipping production apps—including mobile and web projects published to app stores—and improving CI/CD and authentication flows. His background spans cloud-native work on Azure, event-driven systems, and performance-minded refactors from his co-op roles at CAE and Accedo.tv. Beyond code, he has hands-on hardware and maker-space experience maintaining fabrication equipment and leading accessibility and localization efforts. Colleagues value him for pragmatic problem-solving that connects backend architecture to real user and operational needs.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
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Github Skills (152)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nicoco007/AuraSDK
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
C# wrapper for the ASUS Aura SDK
Contributions:3 releases, 44 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 10 months
dotnetc-wrapperasus-auraaurasdk
nicoco007/DynamicOpenVR
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Unity scripts to allow dynamic registration of OpenVR actions
Contributions:16 releases, 244 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
registrationopenvrunityunity3dunity-scripts
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