Nithin Bekal
Staff Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNithin Bekal is a Staff Developer at Shopify with 16 years of engineering experience and over a decade shipping Ruby on Rails web applications. He blends hands-on product development and infrastructure ownership—having co-founded and led the engineering for a design marketplace—while now shaping large-scale commerce systems at Shopify. A thoughtful contributor to the Ruby language docs, he improves developer experience by clarifying examples and behavior in core libraries. Based in Ottawa, he brings a pragmatic mix of startup grit and enterprise-scale engineering, often bridging product needs and technical clarity.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communication, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communication at P A College of Engineering
English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam
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Github Skills (11)
programming-language10
documentation10
ruby10
kernel9
git6
vim6
design-patterns6
msysgit6
decorator6
elixir6
phoenix-framework6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ruby/ruby
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
The Ruby Programming Language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Nithin's contributions focused on improving and clarifying the documentation of the Ruby programming language. They added examples for `Benchmark.realtime`, specifying units of time, and updated the documentation. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation for `Kernel#then` and `Float#magnitude` to ensure consistent example styles and clarify function behavior. These contributions reflect a focus on enhancing developer experience through comprehensive and accurate documentation.
object-orientedruby-languageprogramming-languagerubyc
nithinbekal/dotfiles
May 2014 - Feb 2023
Config files for vim, zsh, tmux etc.
Contributions:546 commits, 8 PRs, 286 pushes in 8 years 10 months
zshrcvimtmuxneovimconfig
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