# Nicholas La Roux

> Developer, musician, and environmentalist.

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholaslaroux

Hey, I'm Nicholas 👋🧑‍💻

I'm a developer from the States primarily working on Ruby and Rails libraries and applications. Am particularly passionate about contributing to open source, keeping things up-to-date and secure, and making things feel natural for users via internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n). Let's build something amazing together! Best regards. 💚✨🔒🌏

ハロー、ニコラスと申します 👋🧑‍💻

アメリカ人の開発者で、主に Ruby や Rails のライブラリ、アプリケーションを開発しています。オープンソースに貢献し、ソフトウェアを常に最新の状態に保ち安全性を確保すること、そして国際化（i18n）やローカリゼーション（l10n）を通じて自然な UX・UI を追求することに情熱を注いでいます。ぜひ一緒に素晴らしいものを作りましょう！よろしくお願いいたします！💚✨🔒🌏

Where I've lived・住んだ事のある場所
🇺🇸 → 2015 🇨🇦 → 2018 🇯🇵 → 2025 🇺🇸

## Work Experience
### Senior Developer @ Shopify
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | Tokyo, Japan
● Full stack Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React development and maintenance of services, features, tooling, security, and scaling.
● Launched CI infra preventing new timezone/DST flaky tests in core.
● Unified all 5+ Shopify Audiences’ API clients for better maintainability.
● Migrated first party Google channel from AdWords to Ads API and cut down async onboarding wait time from minutes to under 40 seconds.

### Developer @ Shopify
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Tokyo, Japan
● Full stack Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React development and maintenance of services, features, tooling, and internationalization.
● Developed an anti-fraud system that saved millions of USD.
● Launched multi-currency orders, with my focus on the order view UI.
● Migrated every surface and library to Hong Kong/Macau SAR China.
● Became primary maintainer of open source payment_icons Ruby gem.

### Developer @ Shopify
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
● Full stack Ruby on Rails development of features and internationalization.
● Started and led the first internationalization effort outside of checkout.
● Co-founded the International team with a small group of developers.
● Created, improved, and maintained Ruby libraries for Japanese postal codes and bank information supporting various Japanese features.
● Launched Shopify Payments in Japan.

### Junior Software Engineer @ Juicyorange, LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
Evaluated various open source Ruby on Rails CRM solutions.

http://www.juicyorange.com

### Web Development Intern @ Marist University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Poughkeepsie, NY
Write backend PHP code.
Work with Databases for school systems.
Flesh out school's web side projects.

http://www.marist.edu/

### Data Center Operator @ Marist University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Poughkeepsie, NY
Complete backups of critical systems.
Perform mainframe maintenance tasks.
Monitor and maintain blades, mainframes, virtual machines, and climate control systems.

http://www.marist.edu/

### System Analysis Intern @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Merrimack, New Hampshire
Improved Transmissions team's processes.
Cleaned up bug repository for entire company.

https://www.fidelity.com

### Web Development Intern @ Spectrum (EDU Solutions)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Poughkeepsie NY
Manually test website and emailing functionality.
Create BAT framework for automatic testing.

http://spectrumedusolutions.com/

### Web Development Intern @ Todd Snyder
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York, NY
Improve Todd Snyder's two brand's web presence.
Work with multiple services such as Parse and Shopify.
Help move Todd Snyder forward through e-commerce.

http://www.toddsnyder.com/

### Hardware Technician @ Glen Rock Board of Education
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Glen Rock, NJ
Maintained Glen Rock school district's hardware.
Disassembled and reassembled computer labs.
Managed upgrade implementation of Windows XP to Windows 7.

http://highschool.glenrocknj.org/

### Cashier/Cook/Custodian @ Rock Burger
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Glen Rock, NJ
Order taker, cashier, and occassional cook.
Closing clean up and preparation for next day.
Interaction with customers.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
Marist University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Glen Rock High School
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/larouxn
- Website: https://nicholaslaroux.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/larouxn

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Last updated: 2026-03-22