Tristan Potter
Consultant at Lodestone Labs Inc
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Potter is a Toronto-based consultant and agile software developer with 12 years of experience building performant web platforms and developer-facing APIs. He spent a large portion of his career at Shopify shipping backend and storefront features—everything from authenticated Storefront API access and responsive image support to running Lighthouse at scale and pioneering use of HTTP Early Hints to improve real-world page speed. Tristan pairs deep Ruby/Rails and frontend experience with practical infrastructure work (Kafka, GraphQL, Datadog) and a track record of reducing operational cost by migrating teams to off-the-shelf solutions like Shopify. He also brings an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective from fashion design and tailoring—having created pieces sold in boutiques and contributed runway work—informing a pragmatic eye for product polish and user experience. Known for starting collaborative initiatives (an inter-team book club at Shopify) and leading small teams, he balances hands-on coding with mentorship and systems-level thinking. Based in Old Toronto, he blends creative craftsmanship with measurable engineering impact across commerce and consumer-facing systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at John F Ross CVIFashion Management, Fashion Management at George Brown CollegeBachelor of Math Computer Science, Bachelor of Math Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (42)
checkout10
shopify10
polaris10
credit-card10
storekit10
api10
sdk10
in-app-purchase10
credit10
apple-pay10
square10
collections9
cart9
react8
rebuild8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tristan-potter/tristan-potter.github.io
Jul 2018 - May 2024
My website! Powered by Jekyll, layout built from scratch by me.
Contributions:6 PRs, 73 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 11 months
built-from-scratchlayoutscratchjekyll
tristan-potter/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Jun 2024
My configurations! Mostly a way for me to track my environment in README.md
Contributions:28 PRs, 111 pushes, 40 branches in 7 years 9 months
configurations
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