Sam Jenkins
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Jenkins is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with eight years' experience building full-stack web applications, currently focused on Ruby on Rails and React at Shopify. He combines production engineering roles at companies like Florence, Smart Pension and Cookpad with freelance work and teaching experience from Le Wagon, which underscores his strength in mentorship and developer enablement. An Oxford graduate in physics and philosophy who topped his Le Wagon cohort, Sam brings analytical rigor and practical product delivery—having owned end-to-end features, multi-tenancy rewrites, and performance optimisations. Outside work he competes internationally in sailing and pursues bodybuilding, a combination that reflects a competitive, disciplined approach to engineering and continuous improvement.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Le WagonBachelor of Arts - BA Physics and philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Physics and philosophy at University of OxfordA levels & GCSE, A levels & GCSE at Magdalen College School, Oxford
Github Skills (94)
rubocop10
ruby10
activeadmin10
cldr10
linter10
yaml-configuration10
static-analysis10
sublime-text10
formatter10
wagon10
sidekiq10
code-analyzer10
locale10
jruby10
analyzer10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
team-florence/rubocop-florence
Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
Single source of truth for Ruby styling across our Ruby projects
Contributions:13 releases, 51 reviews, 123 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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