Rick Caplan
Senior Frontend Developer at Shopify
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Caplan is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Los Angeles with four years of focused experience building data-driven web and mobile applications and a longer background in film production. He currently architects performant, cost-conscious frontend solutions at Shopify after helping scale product experiences at Fair.com. Rick uniquely blends technical frontend craftsmanship with hands-on content production skills—from writing and directing to editing—enabling him to design platforms that reflect real-world media workflows. His work centers on streamlining digital filmmaking pipelines and unifying production and distribution systems, informed by a BA in Visual and Media Arts from Emerson College. That hybrid perspective helps him anticipate product needs across both engineering and creative teams, making him a practical bridge between tech and entertainment.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Sharon High SchoolBA, Visual and Media Arts: Film, History, BA, Visual and Media Arts: Film, History at Emerson College
Github Skills (15)
figma-plugin10
react-modal10
typescript10
hydrogen10
cjs10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
react10
oclif10
shopify10
cli10
shopify-api9
ecommerce8
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/ui-extensions
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Repo for the public defintion of Shopify's UI extension APIs. Please use the community forum to ask questions or report issues: https://community.shopify.dev/c/extensions/5
Contributions:17 reviews, 27 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Shopify/cli
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
cliecommercehydrogenoclifthemes
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