Scott Birksted
Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolScott Birksted is a Senior Staff Engineer in Ottawa with two decades of hands-on mobile and backend experience, currently returning to individual-contributor craft work after five years in management at Shopify. He specializes in device-side code and user-facing features across iOS and Android, having led major migrations to React Native and MVVM while shaping mobile GraphQL APIs and scalability standards. His career includes building server-driven UIs at Etsy, driving BlackBerry App World to support tens of millions of users, and early mobile game and storefront systems that helped scale startups. Equally comfortable in C++, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C and web stacks, he combines deep platform knowledge with a product-minded focus—he uses and iterates on the apps he builds. Outside engineering he collects records and DJs, bringing the same curator’s sensibility to UX and feature design.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ernestown SecondaryB.C.S., Computer Science - Software & Computing, B.C.S., Computer Science - Software & Computing at Carleton University
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Github Skills (16)
parcelable7
windowing7
boilerplate7
java6
image6
constants6
sqlite6
android6
react6
annotation-processor5
android-library5
code-generation4
kotlin4
react-native4
google1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
sbirksted/parceler-library-project-test
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
android-libraryandroidkotlinparcelablewrappers
johncarl81/parceler
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
:package: Android Parcelables made easy through code generation.
Contributions:5 comments, 1 issue in 10 days
code-generationboilerplateandroid-libraryandroidkotlin
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