Reid Van Melle
Development Manager at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarReid Van Melle is a Development Manager at Shopify with 17 years of experience building mobile and full-stack products, based in Ottawa. He progressed from hands-on iOS development and entrepreneurship to senior engineering and technical leadership roles at companies like Instacart, Udacity, and Shopify. Reid combines product intuition—having run his own development studio—with large-scale engineering execution gained at high-growth platforms. He is comfortable across mobile and server-side concerns, bringing deep iOS expertise alongside full-stack fluency. Known for mentoring engineers and shaping cross-functional delivery, he blends practical architecture decisions with a maker’s mentality. Outside of work he stays active in the Ottawa developer community, reflecting a long-term commitment to building useful consumer and education-focused software.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
French
Github Skills (38)
specification8
ntp8
uiviewcontroller8
generator7
clock7
swiftui7
swift7
cli6
localization6
yaml6
xcodeproj6
strings6
xcode-plugin6
command-line-tool5
pipeline5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
curioushq/RunKeeper-iOS
Sep 2011 - May 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 1 year 7 months
rvanmelle/pySPICE
Apr 2011 - Mar 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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