Tanner Rutgers
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTanner Rutgers is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building and operating production web services, currently contributing at Shopify from Ottawa. He brings deep expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, with a strong operational focus using observability tools like Splunk and Datadog to drive reliability and incident response. Earlier work at Intuit sharpened his Java, Spring, Mule, and Hibernate skills while he led a RESTful payments integration team, cutting API errors and improving response times substantially. Comfortable both coding and coordinating teams (he has acted as lead developer and scrum master), Tanner pairs pragmatic engineering with a security-conscious perspective informed by recent studies in cybersecurity and digital forensics. Notably, he has a track record of quick, high-impact deliveries—such as rapid internationalization and performance improvements—that improve customer-facing systems and developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Distinction, Computer Engineering (Software Option, Co-op), 3.55, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Distinction, Computer Engineering (Software Option, Co-op), 3.55 at University of AlbertaCybersecurity, Data Protection, and Digital Forensics Certificate, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Digital Forensics Certificate at Toronto Metropolitan UniversityMedicine Hat College
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Github Skills (45)
netflix10
shopify-api10
hotel-booking10
shopify9
admin9
chrome-extension9
duplicate9
polaris9
rest9
spree9
rails8
chrome8
limiting8
nodemcu7
transition7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tanner-rutgers/RateFlix
Feb 2017 - Oct 2022
Chrome extension that adds external ratings to Netflix
Contributions:86 commits, 2 PRs, 53 pushes in 5 years 8 months
chromenetflixratingschrome-extension
tanner-rutgers/Synclip
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
Clipboard sync chrome extension
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
clipboard-syncclipboardsyncchromechrome-extension
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