Neelam Malaviya

So I'm a dedicated professional with a patient for technologies and ecommerce. So I'm bringing the 4.5 years of experience into the web development and project management, And, uh, I pride myself to delivering a high quality output to the my past to my clients. And, uh, it's been like, uh, uh, it's been like a 4 point 5 years into the Shopify ecosystem. So I really I deeply understand how Shopify works on the algorithm for other, uh, new addition and everything. So, uh, I would really like to tell you, like, how I dive into the Shopify because, initially, I am a computer engineer, and I started my career working as a business development executing initially. In that role, I was, uh, bridged between the my client and the development team. And slowly and gradually, I started, uh, understanding how the technology works and how the Shopify, uh, actually, uh, works. So, uh, due to that interest, uh, and that really, uh, helped me to dive into the Shopify more and more, and then I decided to work, uh, to make my career into the Shopify special. So it's been, uh, like, almost 4 years working as a Shopify, and I start, uh, and, uh, whole experience working in a technology, uh, industry. It's around, like, uh, 6.5 years of experience. Also, uh, I'm a a problem solver, and I'd like to take that challenges as a part of my work. And I really, uh, understand whatever the, uh, context of the statement or a problem statement or whatever it is. So I really try to understand it first, and then I, uh, make a plan, and I can decide how to, uh, make it functional.

Okay. So I would be very honest here. So it's been I, uh, I I have just used a tab in for my, uh, past two projects only. The and the reason was their project was already set up, like, uh, which I just need to redesign some of the components of the using the Talend CSS and, uh, Talend CSS already provide some reusable component like we sorry. Uh, credentialing CSS. Right? So I I don't have a a deep knowledge about how to refactor, uh, using the Tailwind CSS, but I know how the basics, uh, work like using the c using the, uh, CSS 3 and SASS. But, yeah, I know how Tailwind works.

Okay. So, uh, in my past project, so, uh, I I was working closely with the, uh, Figma designers. So, uh, they were designing the prototypes, and I was responsible to converting that Figma prototype into the liquid template. So the reason, uh, and we were very strict about or the client were very strict about the pixel perfect design. So we had a different, uh, devices. Uh, like, we we need to take care of we need to take care of the iOS devices and Android devices and laptop and tablet and everything. So Pixel 4 5th is was, uh, is what we were focusing on it. So, uh, when used to converting the Figma prototypes into the liquid, so what I used to prefer is so my my first priority always, uh, being, uh, understand the component first. For example, let's say, if there is a product that we're designing. So, obviously, we need to reuse that product customer, for example, in a collection maybe in the recommended section. So I designed it accordingly. I designed the snippet of that product card so that we can reuse it again and again, and we don't need to, uh, rewrite the same code, uh, for the multiple times. So that's how I, uh, uh, I have practiced myself to avoid the revisions.

What step do you take to improve on your time? Okay. Yeah. So to improve the lose time, I specifically suggest to use and go with this size so that we can easily minify the CSS and, also, with the Shopify, Shopify is a very, um, I mean, when designing the any, um, web pages, we need to take care of the CSS and HTML part because, ultimately, this is the main, uh, thing. Whenever the pages load, uh, the CSS and JavaScript is the main thing that it takes a time. So what I might practice is that I used to write I used to, uh, I used to follow the bootstrap model every time because and, uh, for example, if if if it is, uh, from the scratch project, so what I do is I design the intersection, and I try to use the same class, uh, same class for the, uh, similar components instead of writing the custom CSS every time. So, uh, so it it won't take a time every time to load the different CSS. And I try to make the, uh, all the CSS, uh, uh, in the different files so that I can easily modify.

Okay. So, uh, for the GitHub, like, it's been, like, a 2 years that I have been, uh, using the GitHub to manage the Shopify team especially. And, uh, I had a experience creating the shopping, uh, workflow for the Shopify team over the, uh, GitHub. So for example, I would like to give you example. In my past project, we had a, uh, 4 different store having the ideal, uh, code for all the 4 store for its, uh, the design and code. Uh, everything was the same for whole 4 store. Just the domain was different. For example, uh, dotd., uh, co.uk.au, uh, etcetera. So what best practice is, we just, uh, have to, uh, create we just have to create a branch for the different, uh, features, and, uh, it should be live on a whole full store together. So we created a workflow something like that. So, uh, with the live thing so that so the master theme is already connected with all those 4, uh, stores so that we just don't need to push the code, uh, for a code to the different thing instead of, uh, we just need to push it and create a PR for the merging with the master or, uh, only once in a time. And, yeah, GitHub, uh, I I used to work with the I used to work with the GitHub desktop, which is very UI friendly. And every time, I just don't need to write the, uh, command for myself. So that's why I really love to work with the Git desktop and GitHub.

Experience. Sorry. Okay. So, yeah, so liquid. So, uh, liquid, uh, according to the my experience, liquid is a very similar to the JavaScript because, uh, ultimately, in the Shopify, we are creating the template. Right? So, uh, so whenever and, uh, this, uh, in terms of the syntax, I would say it's also very easy. Like, we just need to, uh, take care of that curly braces and all. So syntax is very easy, but I, uh, and it's, like, around, uh, 3, uh, around the 3.5 years that I have I have been working with the liquid, especially before that, I was just working, uh, uh, with the HTML and CSS, and then I direct to the JavaScript. And after running the JavaScript, the liquid becomes easy for me. So yeah. So and yeah. I would say.

Project manager. So, yeah, I have been a part of a team, uh, in my past project where we got a team of 6 people, and we had a project manager. So every day, uh, uh, whenever there's some new features were coming, so we were discussing in our, uh, daily meetings, and we were heading the scrum meeting. So, uh, every time I just don't ever so according to the my experience, like, every time I just don't need to rush over the things and, uh, explain everything. The reason was there was a project manager who was assigning us the, uh, task. And according to that that task, we need to manage and we need to, uh, I mean, we need to prioritize the things, uh, with the discussion, uh, and in the discussion with the project manager. So that's what the, uh, development process makes it easy. Instead of performing all the duties like the how to what is any job bucket, what what task would be the next, and what is the priority, and what is the deadline and all. So I guess, uh, uh, I'm truly, uh, flexible working with the project manager because that's how, ultimately it, uh, it makes my life as a developer makes it easy, uh, in a especially in working with the complex project, not just a small, but, uh, complex project.

Yeah. So as I mentioned earlier already that I don't have, uh, really great experience working with the template because, uh, I, uh, I had just used for, uh, past of my 2 projects and, gladly, for, uh, redesigning the few components only. So they were already with CSS component that we have used, uh, from the. So I really don't understand, so I would be very honest here.

Shopify. Okay. So, uh, yeah. So recently, in one of, uh, my projects, so there was a task, like, we need to synchronize the data, uh, from the 3rd party web application. So, ultimately, it was the same client. Like, they were having a web application and, uh, where they were taking the test route from the users. So they were storing some symptoms data into the database in that uh, s MySQL database. So they want to synchronize it with the Shopify. And, you know, there is, uh, Shopify, uh, rest API, which is providing, um, which is just providing the customizing the data, but they do and the but there is a new facility to store the symptoms tag. I mean, the that symptoms from the 3rd party applications into directly Shopify, uh, customer tag. So for that, uh, uh, I have found one way. So in that, what we were doing is we were just writing the script in a server side script that, uh, using the and, uh, using the Shopify customer first API to update the customer. Uh, that's a that's a one way that we can do that. And the another way is, like, uh, simplest way, if there is a not that much, uh, user, then what, uh, we can do is we can import those data into the Excel sheet by using the, uh, sorry, uh, import those data, and then we can update the customer tag using the Shopify flow. Like, Shopify flow is one of the Shopify's default application. Right? So using in in that system, I created one flow. For example, let's say, if I find in that data, if I find, uh, customer with the same email address, I need to create one condition that if find that similar email ID, then I need to take a action to update the customer tag, uh, with that sedum's data. So this was the, uh, recent experience that I have, um, uh, with the Shopify, which was quite difficult. But, yeah, uh, in this way, we can find the way. Using the Shopify flow is may be easy.