Sander Lijbrink
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Lijbrink is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify with a decade of experience building high-throughput, resilient systems and developer tooling. He has driven platform-scale projects—including a Vitess-backed storage layer handling over 1M ops/sec with 99.99% uptime and a multi-threaded Go server for real-time collaborative APIs using CRDTs and Kafka. His background spans scaling storefront and checkout APIs, optimizing CI for one of the largest Ruby codebases, and building mobile CI services, demonstrating strong full-stack systems instincts from databases to runtime performance. Based in Amsterdam, he combines research experience from the University of Amsterdam with practical mobile and backend engineering, and consistently focuses on measurable improvements in resiliency and operational cost.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of AmsterdamAtheneum (VWO) Science and Engineering profile, Atheneum (VWO) Science and Engineering profile at Berger Scholengemeenschap
Dutch, English
Github Skills (69)
continuous-testing10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-deployment10
buildkite10
continuous-integration10
cicd10
gocd10
credit10
docker10
credit-card9
sdk9
golang9
android-apps9
ruby9
automation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/subscriptions-transport-ws
May 2020 - May 2020
:arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 tags in 1 day
arrowsgraphql-subscriptionswebsocketsclient-serversubscriptions
sander-m/sander-m.github.io
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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