Seb Barre
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSeb Barre is a Staff Software Engineer in Ottawa with 14 years of experience delivering pragmatic, production-ready engineering solutions across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on front-end craft—contributing UI improvements to the popular Foundation framework—with platform and observability expertise that drove measurable reliability gains for TELUS’s content ecosystem. At TELUS he led initiatives that instrumented 300+ apps, processed billions of observability points weekly, and launched an Engineering Excellence Dashboard to boost developer velocity and security posture. He’s equally comfortable building developer tooling and onboarding experiences as he is organizing internal conferences and producing technical training at scale. Now on Shopify’s Privacy Engineering team, he blends product-minded engineering with a knack for reducing operational toil while preserving robustness and security. An early founder and long-time consultant, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and practical leadership to complex, cross-functional challenges.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Ottawa
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
jquery10
front-end-development10
html10
css9
responsive-design9
php9
csv9
phpexcel9
routes6
orm6
sql6
laravel6
global-variables6
zend-framework6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/foundation-sites
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Seb primarily focused on enhancing the user interface aspects of the `foundation-sites` repository. Their contributions involved modifications to the `index.html` file to add new form elements, including checkboxes, radio buttons, and select elements. They also updated and fixed issues with the `javascripts/jquery.customforms.js` file to track changes to the native select. These changes show a clear focus on front-end development.
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
sbarre/eloquent-versioned
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Add transparent versioning to Laravel 5's Eloquent ORM
Contributions:9 releases, 52 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
transparenteloquent-ormphpversioninglaravel-5
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