Sander Lijbrink

Sander Lijbrink is a Staff Software Developer at Shopify.3 He specializes in large-scale systems and developer productivity, with a focus on distributed systems.

Professional Experience

Sander currently works at Shopify, where he has been involved in several key projects:

1. He played a significant role in developing Shopify's iOS continuous integration (CI) infrastructure.12
2. As part of the Developer Acceleration team, he contributed to creating a unified build system for all CI/CD pipelines across Shopify, including support for both Android and iOS.12

Contributions and Expertise

Sander has demonstrated expertise in:

• Implementing and scaling iOS build infrastructure
• Working with virtualization technologies like Anka for macOS environments
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines for large development teams

In one of Shopify's engineering blog posts, Sander shared insights on how the company scaled its iOS CI system using Anka, improving maintainability and scalability for a team of about 60 iOS developers running approximately 350 iOS build jobs per hour.2

Education

Sander received his education from the University of Amsterdam.3

Online Presence

Apart from his LinkedIn profile (username: sander-lijbrink), Sander also has a GitHub account under the username sander-m, where he is listed as a Software Engineer at Shopify.4

Sander's work at Shopify demonstrates his commitment to improving developer productivity and building robust, scalable systems for mobile app development.