Rob Thornton
Summary
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SeniorRob 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.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
ncurses10
programming-language9
golang9
go9
roda8
drupal-commerce7
sequel7
linter6
code-analyzer6
drupal6
rack5
commerce5
ruby5
php-fpm5
graphiql5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rthornton128/gocalc
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 5 months
rthornton128/goncurses
Jul 2012 - Mar 2021
NCurses Library for Go
Contributions:7 reviews, 171 commits, 28 PRs in 8 years 9 months
goncurses
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