Robert Cooper
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Cooper is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with a decade of hands-on experience building polished, high-performance web products from frontend UX to backend systems. He has shipped impactful features at startups and scale-ups—improving key page render times by up to 10x, automating deployments and migrations, and enabling self-hosted enterprise offerings that doubled revenue. Comfortable zooming between architecture and UX, he favors simplicity, maintainability, and developer workflows that keep teams in flow. Recently focused on practical AI: both using tools to speed his own work and integrating AI features into production systems. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he brings a systems-minded curiosity and a habit of experimenting with new tech to solve real user problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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79answers
10questions
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
npm-package10
component-library10
hsl10
hex10
modular10
browser10
chakra10
ark-ui10
blueprint10
wai-aria10
static-site-generator10
hsv10
nodejs10
mongodb10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robertcoopercode/color-namer
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Web app that generates color names for hex and rgb colors 🎨
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years 6 months
hexreactxyzhsltint
robertcoopercode/personal-website
Jul 2017 - May 2020
My personal website and blog 📝
Contributions:49 PRs, 439 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 9 months
reactnextjs
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