James Hall
Staff Software Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Hall is a Staff Software Developer based in Ottawa with 11 years of professional experience building analytics and infrastructure systems at Shopify. He brings deep practical expertise in PHP, Java, and Go, progressing from intern to staff-level contributor on Merchant Analytics platforms. A recent computer science graduate, he pairs formal academic training with a long history of hands-on development and a habit of exploring new languages and frameworks in his spare time. Known for teamwork and professionalism, he focuses on pragmatic, scalable solutions that serve large merchant-facing workloads. Unexpectedly, despite a production-heavy career, he still finds time to prototype language and framework experiments, keeping his technical edge fresh.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours, Computer Science at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaDiplôme d'Études Collégiales, Sciences, Diplôme d'Études Collégiales, Sciences at Heritage College
English, French
Github Skills (45)
kubernetes-namespace9
subproject9
mux9
referrer9
kubebuilder9
command-line-tool9
router8
http8
kubernetes8
golang8
google-cloud7
go7
interpreted-language7
cloud-storage6
sorbet6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JamesOwenHall/gate
Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
A dynamically typed interpreted language written in Rust.
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 2 months
interpreted-languagerust
BruteForceFencer/bff
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 20 pushes in 3 months
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