Robert Locarno
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorRobert Locarno is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and distributed systems, currently contributing at Shopify from Arvada, Colorado. He has led cross-functional development at companies including Amazon Lab126 and Valimail, shipping infrastructure that improved supply-chain coordination and surfaced email security vulnerabilities. As a founder he architected a privacy-focused, decentralized data platform, and earlier roles show hands-on full‑stack work and legacy refactors that supported rapid user growth. Known for pragmatic engineering—“writing tic-tac-toe with if statements since ’05”—he blends systems design with practical delivery and has a track record of saving millions through targeted automation. Colleagues rely on him for architecture decisions and for turning complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
twitter-api10
ruby-wrapper9
ruby9
authentication8
background-service8
authorization8
security7
oauth2-client7
capistrano7
job-queue6
queue6
cli6
oauth6
package6
resque6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robertIngrum/MikeBelzer
Jul 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
bonusly/twitter
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
rubytwitter-api
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