Scott Walkinshaw
Senior Staff Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Walkinshaw is a Senior Staff Developer with 15 years of full-stack experience building high-scale Ruby on Rails and JavaScript applications, currently shaping APIs and platform patterns at Shopify. He has led core work on Shopify’s Storefront and Admin GraphQL APIs, built a full-query cache for GraphQL, and consistently ships production systems that serve millions. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and DevOps, he contributes to major open-source projects in the Ruby and Roots ecosystems (including graphql-ruby and several Roots/Bedrock/Sage repos) and has a strong track record modernizing deployment and build tooling. His background in networking and systems administration informs pragmatic infrastructure improvements like SSL, Nginx, and automated deployment hardening. Scott combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and API design discipline, making complex integrations and migrations feel routine.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Networking, Diploma, Computer Networking at Humber CollegeNone, Mathematics, Economics, None, Mathematics, Economics at York University
Github Skills (51)
env10
sage10
shopify-api10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
apidoc10
shopify10
wordpress10
css10
amazon-bedrock10
configuration-management10
capistrano10
gulp10
rails10
schema-design10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
roots/trellis
Apr 2014 - Jan 2023
WordPress LEMP stack with PHP 8.2, Composer, WP-CLI and more
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 74 reviews, 1004 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on configuring and improving the infrastructure aspects of the `trellis` repository. Their contributions include fixing PHP and Nginx configurations, adding SSL support with Let's Encrypt integration, enhancing the deployment process, and optimizing the overall system by adding security headers. The user also implemented features for automated architecture detection in Vagrant and improved the built-in fail2ban filters.
nginxnginx-wordpresscomposerclivagrant
roots/bedrock
Dec 2013 - Dec 2022
WordPress boilerplate with Composer, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 12 reviews, 226 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on configuring and improving the deployment process and environment setup for the Bedrock WordPress boilerplate. They made changes to Capistrano deployment scripts, including updates and added .htaccess file support. The user also contributed to the project's build process by creating a script for environment variable handling and database configuration and updating the autoloader plugin. They also addressed compatibility issues, such as PHP version conflicts.
wordpress-starterbedrockboilerplateimprovedwordpress
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