Tim Anema
Senior Software Engineer at PocketHealth
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTim Anema is a seasoned backend and full‑stack engineer with 15 years of experience, currently based in Old Toronto and contributing to production-grade tools at the intersection of web frameworks and ecommerce. He has deep practical expertise with Shopify's ecosystem—refactoring Django and Rails app scaffolding, hardening OAuth flows, improving CLI auth, and enhancing theme tooling and SDKs across Python, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript. Tim leans into reliability: notable contributions include strengthening test suites, pagination tests, and API stability for widely used Shopify libraries. Comfortable across the stack, he balances shipping features with refactors that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability. Not obviously flashy, he prefers pragmatic engineering over hype—his GitHub bio explicitly rejects crypto/pyramid schemes and his work reflects steady, security-conscious craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.c. Hons Computer Science, B.S.c. Hons Computer Science at Laurentian University/Université Laurentienne
English
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Github Skills (48)
shopify-api10
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
shopify10
django10
testing10
configuration-management10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
ruby10
go10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/themekit
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Shopify theme development command line tool.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 26 reviews, 921 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tim made contributions to the Shopify theme development command-line tool, focusing on improving the tool's functionality and maintainability. Their work included enhancements to the help message, the addition of theme ID configuration, the improvement of error messages, refactoring of core functionalities and addition of removing capabilities to replacement. They demonstrated expertise in working with Go and the themekit project structure.
theme-kitclicommand-line-toolshopify-themethemekit
Shopify/shopify_django_app
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Get a Shopify app up and running with Django and Python Shopify API
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily refactored and updated the Django application, including modifying settings and views. They implemented essential features such as user authentication, including OAuth-related logic with HMAC validation and state checking. Further, the user made improvements to the codebase by adding context processors and other minor cleanups.
apipythondjangoshopify-appshopify-api
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