Ruidan Ji
Senior Software Developer at Rewriting the Code
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRuidan Ji is a Senior Software Developer based in Canada with eight years of experience building reliable backend systems and deployment tooling at Shopify. They have deep practical experience improving API performance and stability—refactoring endpoints and reinforcing rollback semantics in the popular Shipit deployment engine—and hardening Kubernetes deployment flows in the widely used Krane CLI by adding retries, deadline handling, and robust testing. Ruidan’s background spans full-stack and data-focused internships and a BBA with a Computer Science minor from the University of Toronto, giving them both product and technical empathy. Active in open-source operational tooling, they focus on pragmatic improvements that reduce incidents and make releases safer.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Minor in Computer Science at University of TorontoExchange Program, School of Economics and Management, Exchange Program, School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
error-handling10
kubernetes10
rails10
api10
kubectl10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
cicd9
deployer9
deploying8
bash7
github-ci4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shipit-engine
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Deployment coordination
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ruidan primarily focused on improving the API endpoints and the testing infrastructure for the `shipit-engine` project. They refactored the stacks API endpoint for better performance, and also modified the tests. Furthermore, they ensured the rollback task in the deploy process was correctly implemented. The user demonstrates their ability to refine and ensure the stability of API functionality.
continuous-deploymentdeploymentcoordinationdockercontinuous-delivery
Shopify/krane
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
A command-line tool that helps you ship changes to a Kubernetes namespace and understand the result
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ruidan primarily focused on improving the robustness and reliability of the `krane` tool, specifically related to Kubernetes deployments. Their contributions include adding retries and error handling for kubectl commands, increasing the number of attempts for kubectl apply, and adding context deadline error handling. They also updated testing configurations and addressed code style issues.
golangcommand-line-toolshipnamespacedeploy-tool
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