Steve Bosworth
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Bosworth is an engineering manager with 11+ years of hands-on web and front-end experience, recently leading checkout customizations at Shopify and now managing engineering at Stripe. He combines deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, Google Cloud Platform, developer tooling and web standards with a proven track record shipping high-impact experiences like Shopify’s theme framework and App Store search improvements. A longtime contributor to flagship open-source tooling such as Shopify/slate and Timber, he brings practical knowledge of theme development, accessibility, and developer workflows. Known for building and scaling small cross-functional teams, he focuses on empowering engineers, fostering inclusive culture, and translating product needs into reliable platforms. His unusual background—philosophy undergraduate training plus a web development graduate certificate—gives him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Philosophy, Bachelor's degree Philosophy at Carleton UniversityGraduate Certificate Web Development, Graduate Certificate Web Development at Humber College
Github Skills (11)
html10
theme-development10
responsive-design10
javascript10
scs10
front-end-development10
shopify10
sc10
liquid9
css9
accessibility8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/slate
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Slate is a toolkit for developing Shopify themes. It's designed to assist your workflow and speed up the process of developing, testing, and deploying themes.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:395 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve's commits primarily involve developing the front-end user interface for a Shopify theme. Contributions include implementing new features, adding social meta information, and incorporating code for mobile navigation, search, and product images. They have also made improvements to the page layouts, including adding product forms and adjusting the overall presentation.
deployingworkflowdevelopingspeedslate
Shopify/Timber
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015
The ultimate Shopify theme framework, built by Shopify.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the Shopify Timber theme framework by addressing style guide issues and syntax errors, primarily within JavaScript and SCSS files. They added comments to templates and snippets, providing context for developers using the framework. Significant changes involved refactoring the cart layout to use a table format, adding responsive CSS for cart functionality, and incorporating accessibility improvements with visually hidden text.
shopify-theme-frameworktwigshopify-themetimbertheme-framework
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