Rob Thornton
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Thornton is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of professional experience who currently builds scalable e-commerce systems at Shopify from his base in Ottawa. He transitioned into software after a career in credit management, bringing uncommon commercial and risk-awareness to engineering decisions. A lifelong programmer who started young, Rob has grown from developer to team lead roles, demonstrating both hands-on delivery and people leadership. He favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions and thrives in fast-paced product environments. Though his GitHub is quiet publicly, his steady career progression and long tenure at Shopify signal a focus on production-quality work and cross-functional impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of the Fraser Valley
English
Github Skills (38)
ncurses10
golang10
programming-language9
go9
roda9
sequel8
interpreter8
graphiql7
analyzer7
linter7
rack7
compiler7
odin7
dgraph6
code-analyzer6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rthornton128/roda-graphql
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Proof of concept GraphQL/GraphiQL server using Roda and Sequel
Contributions:35 commits, 175 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 6 months
sequelrackgraphql-toolsgraphiqlroda
rthornton128/calc
Apr 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:339 commits, 76 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
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