Rebecca Friedman
Senior Development Manager at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Friedman is a Senior Development Manager at Shopify with eight years of experience evolving from full‑stack engineer to leader of cross‑functional API teams that steward versioning, rate limiting, and developer-facing infrastructure. She combines hands‑on product engineering—contributing checkout and discount features to Shopify’s widely used JS Buy SDK—with people leadership that scales reliable APIs for third‑party developers and internal teams. Her background spans high‑scale game backends and data pipeline work at Zynga, giving her deep experience in performance, attribution, and operational rigor. Rebecca holds an applied computing master’s and a software engineering degree with a game‑design focus, and she’s known for translating complex API constraints into developer-friendly tools and testable contracts.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Software Engineering (Game Design), B.Eng, Software Engineering (Game Design) at McMaster UniversityM.Sc.AC, Applied Computing, M.Sc.AC, Applied Computing at University of Toronto
Github Skills (7)
graphql10
javascript10
jestjs10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
jtest10
jes10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/js-buy-sdk
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
The JS Buy SDK is a lightweight library that allows you to build ecommerce into any website. It is based on Shopify's API and provides the ability to retrieve products and collections from your shop, add products to a cart, and checkout.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 56 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily contributed to the Shopify JS Buy SDK by implementing and refining checkout-related features. They addressed issues such as handling null responses during checkout fetching, and added functionality to expose discount applications. Further, the user introduced the ability to replace line items and added a new function to remove gift cards. Their work included updating schema definitions and integrating the new features into the test suite, highlighting their involvement across multiple parts of the codebase.
cartapicollectionsretrieveecommerce
rebeccajfriedman/presto
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
queryquery-enginenosqlmysqlsql
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