Rory Tanner
Staff Content Designer at Shopify
North Grenville, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRory Tanner is a Staff Content Designer with 11 years of experience shaping product language and UX across high-growth tech companies, currently at Shopify after recent senior roles at Stripe and Coursera. With deep roots in technical writing and content strategy at Shopify dating back to 2015, Rory blends rigorous editorial craft with product-minded design to simplify complex developer and customer experiences. He brings academic depth—PhD-level study in English Literature—and classroom teaching experience to his work, which helps him translate research and pedagogy into clear, usable content. Known for moving between hands-on copy, cross-functional leadership, and strategy, Rory often surfaces subtle UX gaps that improve task completion and reduce support load. Based in North Grenville, Ontario, he pairs a scholarly attention to language with pragmatic product outcomes, making him effective at both mentoring content teams and shipping measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD English Literature, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD English Literature at University of OttawaBachelor of Arts - BA Rhetoric & Professional Writing, Bachelor of Arts - BA Rhetoric & Professional Writing at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (14)
credit10
apple-pay10
storekit10
shopify9
in-app-purchase9
credit-card9
sdk9
square9
continuous-deployment6
docker6
continuous-delivery5
mobile3
retext2
linter1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andrewjtech123/rebilly-validschema
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:43 comments in 1 day
Shopify/mobile-buy-sdk-ios
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Shopify’s Mobile Buy SDK makes it simple to sell physical products inside your mobile app. With a few lines of code, you can connect your app with the Shopify platform and let your users buy your products using Apple Pay or their credit card.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 months
paystorekitmobile-appsellcredit
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