Ricky Dam
Web Developer (Intermediate)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Dam is a full-stack web developer with 11 years of experience based in Ottawa, currently contributing to Shopify's web platform and also working at Jiffy. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks (React, GraphQL, Jest) and has a track record of performance-focused engineering—previously architecting Redis-based solutions that dramatically improved database throughput and reduced RAM usage. Ricky has end-to-end product experience from pitching and building RickyBooks, an Android + Rails marketplace for students, to shipping production features at scale inside Shopify. Comfortable across backend, frontend and operations, he brings a pragmatic engineering approach informed by hands-on optimization and a history of internships that span QA, WordPress, and automation.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton University
English, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,883reputation
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88answers
14questions
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Github Skills (60)
ios10
react-native10
authentication10
android10
angularjs10
asymmetric10
react10
cross-platform9
linux9
windows9
css9
mobile9
macos8
angular8
ecdsa8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rickydam/ShopifyAndroidAppSummer2019
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Android app for a Shopify merchant with many collections of products! 🌎🖥️📱🤖
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
data-bindingtestingandroidandroid-appkotlin
rickydam/rickydam.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:270 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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