Nick Schwaderer
Senior Production Engineer at Shopify
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Schwaderer is a Senior Production Engineer at Shopify with 11 years of experience focused on Ruby and Rails infrastructure. He contributes to the rails/rails core—work that spans performance and correctness fixes, developer ergonomics (like pointing new apps to master), and careful deprecations around Time arithmetic and bulk inserts. Prior to Shopify he was a core maintainer on Chef's InSpec and a Senior Rails engineer building SaaS used by governments, bringing production-grade and compliance-aware engineering. Unusually for a technologist, he began his career in law, investigative journalism and served as a Montana State Representative, a background that sharpens his attention to policy, auditability and clear technical communication. Based in Belfast, he identifies simply as a Rubyist who blends pragmatic backend craftsmanship with systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Plymouth University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
application-framework10
activerecord10
app-framework10
ruby-rails10
web-framework10
rails10
ruby10
testing9
cancan6
cancancan6
synchronization6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 3 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily revolve around the Rails framework, focusing on enhancements and deprecations. They implemented functionality allowing the creation of new Rails applications to point to the master branch. Furthermore, they addressed performance concerns by preventing the unnecessary watching of translations within gems when reloading is enabled, and deprecated the addition of two Time instances and passing a Time object to Time#since, with accompanying tests. They also deprecated using insert_all/upsert_all with unpersisted records in associations.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
Schwad/shoelace-rails-ui
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
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