Russell Baylis
Staff Designer Accounts & Access at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRussell Baylis is a seasoned product designer with 11 years at Shopify, currently leading Accounts & Access as a Staff Designer out of Ottawa. He has progressed through multiple senior design roles—Custom Data, Online Store, Payments and Storefront Editor—bringing deep experience in merchant-facing product design and platform tooling. Russell blends hands-on theme and storefront experience from early Shopify days with strategic design leadership for complex data and access systems. Trained in interactive multimedia and design, he pairs visual craft with pragmatic UX for large-scale commerce problems. Colleagues describe him as a steady connector who translates merchant needs into scalable design solutions that balance usability, security, and developer constraints.
11 years of coding experience
Algonquin CollegeBachelor of Information Technology Interactive Multimedia and Design, Bachelor of Information Technology Interactive Multimedia and Design at Carleton UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St Joseph's Secondary Schoo
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Github Skills (47)
markdown10
shopify10
oclif10
vscode-extension10
jekyll10
cli10
design-tokens9
ruby9
typescript9
blog-engine9
component-library9
figma-plugin9
react9
dates8
static-site-generator8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sunmockyang/date-calculator
Sep 2016 - Aug 2022
Quickly make calculations involving dates and time intervals in a < 10kb webpage
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 years
datescalculations
rbaylis91/rustbelt
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:147 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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