Samuel Giles
Staff Developer at Shopify
Yeovil, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Giles is a Staff Developer with 11 years of experience building maintainable full-stack web applications, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Shopify from his base in South West England. He specializes in Ruby on Rails server-rendered applications augmented with ES6, Elm, StimulusJS and occasional React, and advocates Clean Architecture patterns and Sorbet-driven type safety to keep large Ruby codebases extensible. Samuel has deep practical experience introducing static typing and serverless patterns in production (notably at Bellroy) and has contributed to Shopify’s packwerk to improve dependency tooling and strict typing. Comfortable across frontend and backend concerns, he blends pragmatic engineering with developer experience, mentorship and a keen eye for refactors that reduce long-term technical debt. Outside work he’s an avid cyclist and musician, which he credits for sustaining a methodical yet creative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
FdSc Computing and Internet Technologies Computing, FdSc Computing and Internet Technologies Computing at University Centre YeovilBritish National Diploma IT Practitioners, British National Diploma IT Practitioners at Yeovil College
Github Skills (6)
dependency-management10
sorbet10
refactoring10
refactor10
ruby10
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/packwerk
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Good things come in small packages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Samuel focused on improving the type safety and maintainability of the `packwerk` codebase, a tool for managing dependencies in Ruby projects. Their contributions involved adding and implementing interfaces, as well as refactoring code to use `typed: strict`. They also modified several `Checker` implementations, including `PrivacyChecker` and `DependencyChecker`, and related testing files to align with these changes. These modifications highlight a focus on improving code quality and refactoring existing functionality.
samuelgiles/duckface
May 2018 - Mar 2019
A collection of tools to enforce duck typing based interfaces in Ruby.
Contributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 months
duckrubyduck-typingenforceinterfaces
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