Shayne Parmelee
Developer Advocate
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShayne Parmelee is a Developer Advocate with 11 years of experience building developer-facing products and programs, most recently as a founding Dev Advocate at LiveKit after a long tenure at Shopify. At Shopify he progressed from support to Senior Staff Developer Advocate, establishing scalable best practices for API product quality, change management, and developer product launches. He pairs hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like shopify_python_api, adding refunds, GraphQL resources and tests—with program-level leadership that helps teams reliably ship high-impact developer tools. Based in the Ottawa area, Shayne blends product-facing advocacy with backend engineering chops and a knack for turning messy change processes into repeatable, launch-ready practices. An unusual strength is his trajectory from overnight support to strategic developer experience lead, giving him deep empathy for developer workflows at every level.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Hon. Game Development, Computer Science Hon. Game Development at Carleton University
English
Github Skills (8)
shopify-api10
api10
python10
apidoc10
wpgraphql9
testing9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify_python_api
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
ShopifyAPI library allows Python developers to programmatically access the admin section of stores
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Shayne made several contributions to the `shopify/shopify_python_api` repository. They added functionality for refunds, bumped the library version, added tests, and introduced GraphQL resource capabilities. The user's work primarily involved enhancing the API's capabilities and ensuring its functionality through testing, leveraging Python for Shopify store interaction.
pythonadminprogrammaticallystores
ShayneP/sixpool
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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