Abhishek Rudra
Toronto,ON
Summary
I help Shopify empower businesses by leveraging expertise in Ruby & Rails to build scalable, distributed systems. As a Senior Developer with over 10 years of experience, I contribute to the design and implementation of complex architectures that support seamless commerce operations. I've collaborated with cross-functional teams to maintain and optimize flows in multiple services.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Shopify
01.2020 - Current
- Launched a new app that empowers over 700,000 merchants to sell their Shopify products on Instagram, which significantly expanded their market reach.
- Developed and maintained the Shopify Ruby monolith as well as smaller Ruby services, integrating them through GraphQL APIs to enhance system connectivity and performance.
- Mentored software developer interns through daily pair programming, providing guidance in creating production-ready code and helping them overcome obstacles, which fostered their growth and efficiency.
- Handled production incidents while on call, quickly diagnosing root causes to minimize downtime and ensure a seamless experience for users.
- Designed and implemented a highly scalable and performant product sync solution in Ruby, enabling efficient product information sharing with partners through webhooks.
- Established automated workflows to take immediate action against malicious merchants upon detection, helping to protect the platform's integrity and reputation.
- Consolidated various payment blacklists across Shopify into a centralized location, making it easier for all services to quickly access and verify critical information.
Software Consultant
Sourced Group
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Developed CI and CD command line tools in Python, which streamlined our deployment process and ensured consistency across environments.
- Created CloudFormation templates that standardized our deployments to AWS, helping to reduce configuration errors and increase deployment speed.
- Built Serverless AWS Lambdas with deployment packages stored in S3, which effectively overcame the 50 MB size limit and improved our system's scalability.
- Consulted with clients to align future software development with customer priorities.
Software Developer
Upchain
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Built proof of concept cloud architecture with Terraform
- Created Java service to abstract communication with AWS Elasticache Redis.
- Refactored legacy code to increase cohesion and decrease coupling.
Software Engineer
Bluecat Networks
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Created REST API endpoints on a microservices architecture.
- Worked with Amazon Web Services S3, DynamoDB, EC2.
- Worked with AWS Java SDK to interact with API Gateway, ECR, DynamoDB, & Cloudwatch.
- Created DNS Tunneling detection service by sniffing DNS query traffic.
Education
MEng - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto04-2015
BASc - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto04-2014
Skills
- Ruby on Rails
- Python
- NodeJS
- Java
- GraphQL
- AWS
- Terraform
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Shopify
01.2020 - Current
Software Consultant
Sourced Group
01.2019 - 01.2020
Software Developer
Upchain
01.2018 - 01.2019
Software Engineer
Bluecat Networks
01.2016 - 01.2018
MEng - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
BASc - Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
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