Shopify Plus Engineer
Roman-Leonid Yurchenko
I build the parts of Shopify projects that do not fit the usual shape — configurators with dependent options, pricing that has to hold at checkout, catalogs too large to edit by hand. Most of that work has been inside agency delivery teams, in code I did not write.
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Where the work is going
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I have spent six years delivering Shopify work, mostly as the engineer an agency brings in once a build stops being routine. Over the last three that has narrowed to complex storefront logic and Plus platform engineering — Functions, checkout extensibility, and configurators whose difficulty is the state model rather than the markup. I want to go further into the architecture and platform decisions, on a team where those are made rather than inherited. I am open to a senior role or a continuing agency collaboration; the difficulty of the work matters to me more than the shape of the arrangement.
Practice
How I build
Four commitments that survive contact with someone else’s codebase.
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- Ownership
- I take the whole problem, including the parts that turn out to be someone else’s. I say what I do not know rather than guessing in public.
- Constraints first
- Most Shopify decisions are placement decisions, and placement is decided by what the platform will reliably enforce. I work out the boundary before the implementation.
- Maintainability
- I write for the developer who inherits it. If a solution requires me to explain it, it is not finished.
- Communication
- Written status without being asked. Tradeoffs stated as tradeoffs, not as recommendations with the reasoning removed.
Record
Experience
unverified — invented for layout
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- 0170+ Shopify storefronts across 30+ clients, the majority inside agency delivery teams rather than direct to merchant.
- 02Shopify Functions and Checkout UI Extensions running in production on Plus stores, replacing three paid apps on one of them.
- 03A four-year partnership with one agency, building from Figma files to launch across roughly twenty projects.
Stack
Tools
Secondary to the work. Kept off the homepage deliberately.
- Platform
- Shopify Plus
- Functions
- Checkout Extensibility
- Metaobjects
- Markets
- B2B
- Languages
- Liquid
- TypeScript
- Rust (Functions)
- GraphQL
- Frontend
- OS 2.0 theme architecture
- Alpine
- Tailwind
- Next.js
- Tooling
- Shopify CLI
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- Vercel
Next step
Best fit for established Shopify teams and agencies with requirements beyond routine theme edits.