Paul Springett
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Springett is a senior software developer based in Leeds with 14 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver high-throughput web platforms. He’s currently shaping subscription infrastructure at Shopify and previously led platform and event-data teams that processed millions of orders and critical live-event flows at SHIFT and Sky Bet. Equally comfortable in backend and frontend roles, he has a track record of modernising legacy systems through refactoring and containerisation while owning API surfaces for catalogue, inventory and orders. An active open-source contributor, he improved robustness and error handling in the widely used statesman state-machine library, showing attention to both correctness and code quality. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, he combines hands-on engineering with a focus on scalable performance and operational reliability.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
go10
state-machine10
ruby10
testing9
rubocop9
rest6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gocardless/statesman
May 2014 - May 2014
A statesmanlike state machine library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on modifying the `statesman` library's behavior related to error handling during state transitions. They implemented changes to ensure that only specific exceptions are caught when calling `transition_to`, improving the library's robustness. Additionally, the user addressed code style issues identified by a linter (rubocop), leading to consistency across the codebase. They also made small improvements by fixing typos in the spec files.
state-machine
shiftcommerce/flex_deployment_client
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Ruby client for use with the flex deployment system
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 14 commits in 9 months
ruby-client
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