Shay Arnett
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Corbin, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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SeniorShay Arnett is a Staff Engineer with 18 years of experience building resilient Ruby on Rails systems and performance-driven APIs, currently shaping backend and mobile solutions at Shopify. Previously a Senior Architect at Tuft & Needle, Shay blends deep Rails and JavaScript expertise with a track record of shipping scalable, responsive applications. He’s known for hands-on performance optimizations and pragmatic architecture choices that improve user-facing speed and developer productivity. Passionate about mentorship, Shay has contributed to apprenticeship programs to cultivate emerging engineers and transfer institutional knowledge. Based in Corbin, Kentucky, he brings startup founder experience and a background in healthcare IT to inform practical, reliability-focused engineering decisions.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (56)
bonjour10
test-runner9
rspec9
cli8
roblox8
cucumber8
ruby8
tui8
shopify8
ai-agent8
sinatra7
luau7
website-design6
file-upload6
mongoid6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shayarnett/shayarnett.github.io
Apr 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
mhorbul/merbums
Mar 2008 - Jun 2008
Contributions:25 commits in 2 months
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