Thenura Jayasinghe
Senior Software Engineer, Cross Border Payments & Shipping at Shopify
Oregon, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThenura Jayasinghe is a Senior Software Engineer at Shopify with seven years of experience building scalable full-stack systems for commerce, shipping, and payments. At Shopify he has worked across Shopify Functions, shipping platforms, and now cross-border payments and shipping tools that help merchants sell internationally. He contributes to high-impact open-source tooling like the widely used Shopify CLI, improving developer experience through robust testing, GraphQL schema work, and error handling. A former CTO and founder, he pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on expertise in React, Node, Rust, and cloud-native tooling. Based in Oregon (Canada), he brings a blend of startup grit and enterprise delivery, often focusing on developer ergonomics and resilient integrations that aren’t obvious from job titles alone.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma Business (SHSM), Ontario Secondary School Diploma Business (SHSM) at Bur Oak Secondary SchoolHonours Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityHonours Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA General, Honours Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA General at Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University
English, Sinhala
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
typescripts10
npm10
typescript-types10
nodejs9
assemblyscript9
graphql8
testing8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
ruby7
cicd6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-cli
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 39 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Thenura primarily contributed to the Shopify CLI project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to Shopify app scripting. Their work included modifying GraphQL schema, refactoring code to use available types, and adding dependency checks for script creation. They also worked on unit tests and error handling for dependency installations, demonstrating a focus on robustness and developer experience. Additionally, the user made improvements to testing and error handling.
clishopify-clifasteroclifshopify
Thenura/regForm
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 29 days
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