Patrick Crane
Senior Developer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPatrick Crane is a Senior Developer based in Montreal with a decade of experience building backend systems for high-scale web platforms, currently contributing to Shopify since 2019. He brings deep Rails and backend expertise, demonstrated by contributions to the popular Shopify app engine—solving tricky Safari cookie/storage access and redirect edge cases that impact app stability. Before Shopify he advanced through development roles at AppDirect and Ericsson, giving him solid grounding in telecom and SaaS integration. Patrick combines pragmatic engineering with attention to cross-browser quirks and developer experience, often addressing subtle platform behaviors that surface only in production. He holds a Computer Science degree from McGill and is an engaged open-source participant who focuses on reliable, maintainable server-side solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (5)
shopify-app10
javascript10
rails10
cookie10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify_app
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
A Rails Engine for building Shopify Apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Shopify app, focusing on cookie and storage access management. They addressed issues related to return URLs in Safari after cookie and storage access grants. The commits demonstrate modifications to controllers and views, along with changes to JavaScript files related to handling storage access and redirects. They also updated the application version.
railsrails-enginehotel-bookingshopify-appsruby
Shopify/go-rspamd
Jul 2021 - May 2022
go-rspamd is a Go client for Rspamd
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 21 commits in 10 months
golanggo-clientrspamdgo
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