Another Ottawa developer here. I went to a few OCLUG meetings a decade ago (when they were still at the Main library branch) but I've been meaning to check it since they moved it to Shopify's offices. I think it might be fun going to OCLUG meetings again. :)
They're a paragon of the developer community and they host a variety of developer-related events on a regular basis, for example the recent Random Hacks of Kindness[1] event.
I've been dabbling in Go lately and Shopify seems like the only place in Ottawa that's using it to support their bottom line.
My experience with Ruby and RoR is fairly limited, and I have no experience with unit testing (very embarrassing). I'm not sure I'd be a good fit for Shopify. :(
That said, I've recently had a dire need for concurrency on a personal project and Go fits the role very perfectly. It's also a very "clean" language to work with, and I distinctly get the impression that doing things "the Go way" leaves very little opportunity to do "dirty" things.
The Go language designers did a very nice job at creating something quite robust without making it excessively verbose.
I love how the CEO of Shopify is on HN getting talent the day he closes the $100m round. Thanks for Active Merchant, btw, it is awesome. Liquid is cool too.
They're a paragon of the developer community and they host a variety of developer-related events on a regular basis, for example the recent Random Hacks of Kindness[1] event.
I've been dabbling in Go lately and Shopify seems like the only place in Ottawa that's using it to support their bottom line.
[1] http://rhok-ottawa.ca/