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.
12 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 (128)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nicoco007/BeatSaber-UnityPackages
Jan 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:7 releases, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
nicoco007/UnityXRefMap
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Generates XRef maps from the Unity source reference for use with DocFX.
Contributions:43 commits, 25 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
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