S Faulkner
Sr. Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Caledon, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolS Faulkner is a Sr. Staff Production Engineer with decades of hands-on software experience and over a decade in production engineering and leadership at Shopify. He blends deep systems, integration and web-technology expertise—spanning Ruby on Rails, compilers/interpreters, distributed transaction systems and content delivery—with a talent for turning multi-stakeholder needs into concrete, maintainable technical solutions. Having progressed from individual contributor roles in OLTP and terminal emulation to director-level technology leadership and production engineering management, he excels at bridging legacy systems and modern web-scale infrastructure. Based in Caledon, Ontario, he is equally comfortable onsite with hardware and asset management as he is shaping cloud-native operational practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, team-building, and shipping resilient systems that prioritize user experience while meeting business goals.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Honours Graduation Diploma, Secondary School Honours Graduation Diploma at Mayfield Secondary SchoolUniversity of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (181)
limiting10
controller10
api-client10
mvc10
terraform10
opal10
ruby10
activerecord10
rack10
cloudflare-api10
serverless10
ingress-nginx10
haproxy10
terraform-module10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/limiter
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
Simple Ruby rate limiting mechanism.
Contributions:9 releases, 6 reviews, 42 commits in 3 years 6 months
mechanismrailsrubyrate-limitinglimiting
sbfaulkner/vic20
Jul 2016 - Dec 2021
vic20 emulator writting in ruby
Contributions:324 commits, 10 PRs, 213 pushes in 5 years 6 months
emulatorrubyvic20writting
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