Stewart Knapman
Lead Solutions Architect, Professional Services at Shopify
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolStewart Knapman is a Lead Solutions Architect with 12 years of experience helping complex merchants in APAC unlock growth through Shopify, specializing in payment migrations and high-stakes platform integrations. He has progressed through hands-on and leadership roles at Shopify—from Merchant Solutions Engineer to Lead and Staff-level positions—building and coaching teams that solve the toughest commerce problems. His background in frontend engineering, UX design and product strategy (from roles at Lucid and earlier web studios) gives him a rare blend of technical craft and customer-facing empathy. Stewart also runs Knapwin Industries, applying entrepreneurial discipline from property investment alongside his product work. Based in Nelson, New Zealand, he combines practical implementation skills with a strategic view of commerce platforms, often tackling migration and scalability challenges most engineers avoid. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates messy business needs into reliable technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Digital Media, Graduated with Distinction, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Diploma in Digital Media, Graduated with Distinction, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Media Design SchoolGraphic and product design, Graphic and product design at Unitec Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
155reputation
47kreached
7answers
7questions
Github Skills (69)
twitter-bootstrap10
twitter10
shopify10
markdown9
gulp9
loopback9
bootstrap9
template-engine9
liquid9
jekyll9
theme-development9
driver9
slick9
flexbox8
audio8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stewartknapman/hemanelson
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Official website for HEMA Nelson
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years
nelson
luciddesign/uniform-thumbnails
May 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.