Jason Kurian

🎒 Experience

Shopify | Senior Web Developer
Nov 2020 - Mar 2023

• Championed the successful release of interactive codeblocks and enabled live rendering of Shopify liquid templating language. This improved satisfaction by >=25%.
• Delivered new Vite-powered Shopify app template (React, Node), improving adoption of best practices for Shopify developers and over 500 new GitHub stars for the repository in 2 months.
• Shipped an integration with a major postal carrier for all Canadian merchants with over 80% adoption rate.
• Co-authored and implemented a new design system for Shopify.dev to support dark mode + multi-theming to WCAG accessibility standards.
• Contributed to the industry leading redesign of Shopify’s REST & GraphQL API documentation.
• Communicated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of web application components.
• Mentored early-career developers to improve skills and knowledge of best practices.
• Conducted interviews for early career developers and improved the interview and evaluation process; led to successful hires of high potential candidates.

Paddle HR (acq. LinkedIn) | Senior UX + Fullstack Developer
May 2019 - Oct 2020

• Designed and led the implementation of robust & extensible JAMstack architecture and design system for Paddle’s main product offering. Championed careful consideration of functionality that’s easy to define, structure, and fix with tests.
• Led the adoption of GraphQL to easily build useful UIs on top of our 440MM+ pt dataset on career history and skills trajectories and derive useful insights for 30K+ enterprise users.
• Introduced thorough automated testing practices and code consistency for our Python codebases, resulting in faster and more reliable delivery.
• Supervised a Junior Developer and mentored them through daily processes and ad hoc projects helping them become a contributing member of the team.
• Facilitated team retrospectives & pruned meetings leading to immediate and continuous improvement in our process and effectiveness of experiments.
• Reviewed several applicants and conducted personal and technical interviews. Received positive feedback from all applicants for the interview process and mentorship provided.

Nulogy | Fullstack Developer
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018

• Co-invented and implemented storybook driven development - a methodology for rapidly prototyping/developing visual components - with senior team members.
• Built a data-intensive dashboard serving millions of rows of data with PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, React, and Redux to help planners derive insights from historical data.
• Developed consistent component / container pattern for data deserialization and visualizations and shared language with the design team, work that led to the full-fledged design system.