Shawn Lee-kwong is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and leading Ruby on Rails projects, currently driving product development at Shopify from Ottawa. He combines deep Rails, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and test-driven development expertise with practical leadership—mentoring juniors, leading cross-functional initiatives, and owning iOS and web app deliveries. Comfortable engaging directly with customers, Shawn has a track record of taking projects from design through deployment using Agile, Scrum and Kanban. He is active in software craftsmanship practices like kata and pair programming, and prioritizes continuous learning and improving his design skills beyond implementation. An engineer who balances pragmatic delivery with mentoring, he seeks to evolve into broader design and architectural roles while staying rooted in quality code.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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Shawn Lee-kwong - Senior Software Developer at Shopify