Tom Gates
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Gates is a Staff Engineer based in Vancouver with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams, currently focusing on financial services software at Shopify—billing, pricing, and reconciliation systems. He progressed through software development and management roles at Shopify, bringing hands-on architecture and delivery experience across backend services and payment integrations. Earlier work at Pact Coffee showcases his full-stack chops: Ruby on Rails APIs, React front-ends, multiple payment gateways, CI-driven deployments, and operational automation with Raspberry Pi and barcode systems. Tom combines technical leadership with a practical product mindset, having reduced support effort through tooling and designed marketing-first features like coffee gift cards. He also mentors the next generation, having run a Code Club for school-aged children, reflecting a commitment to teaching and clear communication. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing complex financial flows and turning cross-functional problems into maintainable, test-driven solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design and Technology, Information Technology, Multimedia Design and Technology, Information Technology at University of Kent
Github Skills (60)
inbox9
admin9
ruby9
rails9
notification9
ruby-on-rails8
monkey8
shopify8
dashboard7
backend7
graphql-tools6
artemis6
query-language6
isbn5
github5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomgatzgates/loggins
Jun 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 10 months
reactjavascriptpacttypescriptcomponent-library
tomgatzgates/dotfiles
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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