Craig Childs

At Shopify I worked with incredible teams on the Shop app, Shopify's leading marketplace app. In my 5+ years there I oversaw and took the lead on multiple projects and technical designs across all of the teams I worked on.

Alongside this I mentored and onboarded new team members, took part in interview processes and maintained on-call and deployment captain responsibilities.

Some areas I worked on include:

• Building the reviews functionality into the app from the ground up as part of the team, scaling from 0 to hundreds of millions of product reviews
• The Tracking features within the app
• Growth and general marketplace features such as cart and checkout experiments
• Resiliency and monitoring for the teams I worked on
• Agentic pipelines to generate content and organise products within the app

As a Full-Stack Developer at Analog Republic my role required me to design and implement solutions to problems for a variety of web applications, ranging from subscription services to research studies.

I oversaw and took the lead on many projects from the planning through to the development and deployment stages.

Some projects I've worked on include:

• The development of subscription based Fan Clubs for popular Music Artists and the migration of existing subscribers
• Deploying and maintaining a service oriented application running on a Kubernetes cluster
• An in-house SaaS product which utilises WebRTC and WebSockets as well as developing an Electron app for the desktop client
• E-commerce solutions for a variety of online stores
• A website for a large BioTech company to promote a new product, integrating with Adobe Experience Manager
• A platform oriented around a new industry standardised format for storing music project and credit data, with a GraphQL API for web and mobile integrations
• Test-Driven GraphQL APIs and Next.js integration with TypeScript for a (soon to be) open-source research platform

I have worked on various projects for friends and acquaintances giving me experience with the management of clients and projects and a platform for learning new tools. These range from simple WordPress blogs to bespoke subscription services.

Some projects I've worked on include:

• A subscription service for registering company documents using a 3rd-party API
• A blog/static content site for a charity

At Tann Westlake I worked as a Web Developer, implementing client websites with custom functionality in WordPress. Alongside this I spent some time researching and developing the tooling and processes. I also wrote a small framework for an in-house mobile app using Cordova (PhoneGap).