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Nick Jones
Engineering Manager at Shopify, previously a Staff Engineer on Payments. Twice-acquired founder, former CTO and Technical Director, and a builder of side projects used by thousands. A proud Welshman, now based in Bath.
- Shopify Eng Manager
- 3 acquisitions
- 15+ years shipping
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Cymru
Now
Engineering Manager
๐๏ธ Shopify
Leading teams across Shop Pay, Shopify Payments, saved payment methods, agentic payments and network tokenisation.
Previously
- ๐๏ธShopifySenior โ Staff Engineer ยท 2023โ26Payments Platform: Shop Pay, vaulting and network tokenisation.
- ๐ฅMyJamCTO ยท 2022โ23Built the platform for the next stage of growth and scaled the team, on AWS, TypeScript and React Native.
- ๐งโ๐Space 48Tech Lead โ Technical Director ยท 2017โ22Scaled engineering from about 15 to 50 and led technical due diligence through a private equity round.
- ๐MeanbeeFounder ยท acquired 2017Magento and Shopify agency for complex builds, with clients like Smythson, Ordnance Survey and Klevu.
- ๐ง HivemindFounder ยท acquired 2017Crawled every domain on the web to detect the technology behind it, at terabyte scale on AWS.
Latest writing
- Self-hosting on a Raspberry Pi with Coolify and Cloudflare
- Building an AI That Watches Rugby
- assert_not_enqueued_with
- Using AI to fill in the blanks
- AWS Cognito, Sign in with Apple and Native Apps
- Using Airtable as a PIM for Shopify
- Cleaning up Secrets with multiple AWS CDK Stacks
- Deterministic testing with Luxon and Jest
- Using Fathom to track Shopify conversions
Side projects
- ๐ฅBoringnew ยท Oct 2026An iOS app that frees you from the YouTube algorithm.
- ๐งจOopsJan 2026An AI-native exception tracker with MCP support.
- โกLoadShiftDec 2025Self-optimising solar and battery scheduling, powered by Julia.
- ๐Gainline3.4k+ usersAn iOS app for rugby fans.
- ๐TrackSSL2.5k+ users ยท acquired 2022Monitors your SSL certificates.
- ๐Back Git UpretiredBackups for your Git repositories.
- ๐KibakoretiredFile sharing made easy. 1k+ users, but never monetised.
- ๐ForecastretiredCash-flow forecasting powered by FreeAgent. 125+ users, but hard to dog food.
- ๐Threat DetectretiredA UI for Content Security Policy reports. Fizzled out.