Niko Rutherford
Senior Engineer at Shopify
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiko Rutherford is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience, currently building at Shopify from San Diego. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix and React work with a strong data-first mindset—owning analytics pipelines and querying Redshift to measure and improve product performance. Niko has led cross-team engineering efforts and product experiments that turned into significant revenue streams (e.g., a Bulk Download product and marketing email systems that once drove ~50% of company revenue). He’s equally comfortable shipping low-level infrastructure changes (HTTPS migration for 120M+ pages) and new product features like integrated video courses. Known for pragmatic, quickly shippable designs that scale, he brings a founder’s practicality from an acquisition-backed startup and a playful GitHub persona (Howdy 🤠).
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics Minor in Computer Science., Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics Minor in Computer Science. at University of Saskatchewan
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Github Skills (40)
world-of-warcraft10
analyzer9
rewrite9
fetch9
fetch-api9
vulcan9
w3c8
api8
apollo8
nodejs8
javascript8
gameplay8
manifold7
typescript7
forum7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nicholasRutherford/gtbee
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:32 commits in 11 months
nicholasRutherford/HN-sum
Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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