Summary
Romain C is a Shopify technical leader and principal engineer with 8+ years building high-performance e-commerce experiences and leading platform-wide standards. He has shaped Shopify capabilities at agencies and consultancies—defining coding standards, CI/CD, testing strategies, and theme architectures—and led major migrations and bespoke builds like a complex golf club configurator for PXG. Equally comfortable in hands-on front-end work with React and Vue.js as in architecting backend integrations (GraphQL, Storefront API, Shopify Functions), he brings pragmatic solutions that scale across global storefronts. His background spans startups to enterprise clients (Kylie Cosmetics, General Mills, L’Oréal), and he pairs product sensibility with a marketer’s eye from his freelance and creative early career. Based in Santa Barbara, his international experience and InfoSec interest inform a security-aware, user-first approach to commerce engineering. Colleagues rely on him for turning messy requirements into maintainable, testable code and repeatable delivery processes.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Coding Bootcamp Web development in Ruby Ruby on Rails, Coding Bootcamp Web development in Ruby Ruby on Rails at Le Wagon
EDHEC BBA Junior Consulting (previously ESPEME) Marketing Business Economics International Business, EDHEC BBA Junior Consulting (previously ESPEME) Marketing Business Economics International Business at EDHEC Business School
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, French, Chinese, Spanish