Daniella Niyonkuru
Production Engineer at Shopify
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniella Niyonkuru is a Production Engineer based in Gatineau, Quebec with a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade systems at scale. Since 2016 she has driven operational excellence at Shopify, bringing a background in embedded and avionics software from roles at CAE and internships across telecommunications and defense. Her contributions to the popular Shopify/identity_cache project show a focus on backend performance, pragmatic caching strategies, and data integrity—she added flexible association fetching, benchmarks, and safeguards like read-only cloning. With an M.A.Sc. from Carleton and a B.Eng., she combines research-led thinking and hands-on engineering, and her early leadership in customer-facing roles gives her a practical edge in incident response and cross-team communication.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) at Université du Québec en OutaouaisMaster of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.), Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) at Carleton University
Github Skills (8)
testing10
activerecord10
caching10
disk-cache10
object-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
ruby10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/identity_cache
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
IdentityCache is a blob level caching solution to plug into Active Record. Don't #find, #fetch!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniella primarily contributed to the `shopify/identity_cache` repository by modifying the core caching logic and related tests. Their work focused on allowing more flexible configurations for association fetching, returning either an array or a relation. They added performance benchmarks and profiles for the codebase. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by marking fetched records as read-only and cloning them, ensuring the integrity and consistency of the cached data.
activerecordcachingwebscalecache
daniellaniyo/chatops-demo
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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