Riley Shott
Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRiley Shott is a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience building and automating resilient production systems, currently leading infrastructure work at Shopify from Vancouver. A pragmatic generalist, Riley focuses on using the right tool for the job—whether that’s automating deployments, hardening security, or improving operational workflows—and has deep hands-on experience with Chef, Consul, Vault, Terraform, and Rails-based deployment tooling. He’s an active open-source contributor who has improved the consul Chef cookbook (including SELinux and Windows support) and helped harden Shopify’s Shipit deployment engine by standardizing configs and webhook handling. Known for mentoring, documentation, and practical security-minded engineering, Riley also brings a quietly human touch—he appreciates candlelit dinners—and a habit of turning repetitive tasks into robust automation.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
cookbook10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
chef-client10
consul10
github-api10
chef-solo10
webhooks9
windows9
rspec9
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
Nov 2015 - May 2017
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Riley's contributions primarily revolve around the management and enhancement of the `consul` cookbook, a Chef cookbook for Consul configuration and deployment. They focused on adding support for configuring SELinux, incorporating specific testing via ChefSpec to ensure the cookbook's functionality, and adding new configuration options. Furthermore, they updated the project's dependencies and addressed Windows support. The user also made improvements related to path settings and dependency management.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
Shopify/shipit-engine
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Deployment coordination
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 17 commits, 12 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Riley focused on backend development tasks within the Shipit-engine repository. Their contributions include standardizing configuration keys for the GitHub API, refactoring code to symbolize Rails application secrets earlier in the application lifecycle, and fixing WebhookController calls. Furthermore, the user added logging and improved the handling of different payload types within the WebhookController. They also addressed issues with git commands used for multi-org cloning.
continuous-deploymentdeploymentcoordinationdockercontinuous-delivery
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