Summary
Ryan Wang is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience who currently builds scalable products at Shopify in Old Toronto. He has moved from internships to full-time engineering roles at Shopify, with prior test automation work at Ford and cross-language tooling experience at Irdeto, demonstrating strength across Java, C, Python, and scripting for CI/CD. Ryan excels at pragmatic automation—rewriting extraction layers, adding CLIs and test modes, and cutting code complexity by over 50% while improving observability and testability. His background combines a Computer Science degree from Carleton with philosophical studies at Sun Yat-sen, reflecting both technical rigor and a thoughtful, systems-level perspective. Comfortable across backend systems and test infrastructure, he brings a proven track record of turning heterogeneous codebases into maintainable, instrumented platforms.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Carleton University
Bachelor of Philosophy, Philosophy, Bachelor of Philosophy, Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University