Randy Stauner
Staff Developer at Shopify
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarRandy Stauner is a versatile Staff Developer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling, currently driving Ruby infrastructure at Shopify from Mesa, Arizona. He moves fluently between Clojure, Ruby, Go and JavaScript, having shipped production services, CI/CD improvements, and developer productivity tools that simplify cross-service development. Randy is an active open-source contributor with notable work on MetaCPAN and the Ruby core (YJIT), where he improved API search/filtering and specialized JIT codegen to boost runtime performance. He has deep operational experience—terraform, Grafana alerts, Docker, and migration of legacy deployments—that helps bridge dev and ops needs. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and a penchant for fixing anything, he also brings an eye for UX polishing from full-stack work on MetaCPAN web and SyntaxHighlighter. Outside of code he’s the sort who quotes M*A*S*H and treats each complex bug like a curious puzzle to be unraveled.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish
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Github Skills (46)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
perl10
cpan10
ruby10
regular-expression10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
front-end-development10
aws-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
metacpan/metacpan-api
Dec 2010 - Aug 2015
A free, open API for everything you want to know about CPAN
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:341 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Randy primarily focused on enhancing the MetaCPAN API, as evident from their commits. They made changes to the download URLs for backpan status, improved module dependency searching, implemented endpoints for reverse dependencies and changes logs, and introduced filtering capabilities for the API. Furthermore, they added functionality for consistency across different API calls, and optimized various database queries.
apieverythingpythonmetacpanperl
metacpan/metacpan-web
Aug 2011 - Aug 2015
Web interface for MetaCPAN
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:368 commits, 10 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Randy primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the MetaCPAN web interface. Their contributions included implementing syntax highlighting for various file types like YAML, JSON, C, and CPAN::Changes, and also improved the display and formatting of dates. Furthermore, they integrated and improved the display of code snippets by modifying the CSS for proper styling and formatting. They also worked on the user experience by adding several features, and fixed several UI bugs including correcting HTML.
cpanmetacpanperlweb-interface
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