Kerstin Puschke
Senior Staff Developer at Shopify
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKerstin Puschke is a Senior Staff Developer with 11 years in production software engineering, currently leading platform work at Shopify from 2017 through today. She brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and Perl, designing distributed microservices architectures with REST and AMQP and operating robust MySQL-backed systems at scale. Her background blends hands-on engineering with academic rigor—a doctorate in economics and a Diplom in mathematics—paired with years of teaching and consulting on databases, Linux and scientific tooling. Known for building resilient services for high-traffic social and commerce platforms, she also translates complex research and data problems into practical, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Mathematics, Diplom Mathematics at Ruhr University BochumDoctorate Economics, Doctorate Economics at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German, French
Github Skills (7)
ruby9
rails9
usergroup7
shopify6
activemerchant5
jekyll3
ruby-on-rails3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
railsgirlshh/railsgirlshh.github.com
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches, 6 comments in 1 year 10 months
german-translationrails-girlsrailstranslationruby
railsgirlshh/intro-talk
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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