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<h1>Self-Reflection Report</h1>
<div class="subtitle">Petar Bojinov - Staff Engineer, Analytics Team</div>
<div class="review-period">Review Period: March 24, 2025 - September 26, 2025</div>
<div class="review-period">Generated: October 2, 2025</div>
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<a href="#summary" class="nav-pill">Executive Summary</a>
<a href="#metrics" class="nav-pill">Key Metrics</a>
<a href="#charts" class="nav-pill">Visualizations</a>
<a href="#ratings" class="nav-pill">Scale Ratings</a>
<a href="#spotlights" class="nav-pill">Work Spotlights</a>
<a href="#growth" class="nav-pill">Growth Areas</a>
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<h2 class="section-title">Executive Summary</h2>
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<p class="executive-summary">
During this review period, I demonstrated strong technical leadership across Shopify's analytics platform,
contributing <strong>103 commits</strong> across 4 critical repositories, <strong>600+ Slack interactions</strong>
across 30+ channels, and successfully delivering multiple high-impact projects including the Multi-Store Analytics
Infrastructure, Live View Performance Optimization, and AI-Assisted Development tooling.
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<div class="metric-value">103</div>
<div class="metric-label">Total Commits</div>
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<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">+101K</div>
<div class="metric-label">Net Lines Changed</div>
</div>
<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">2,000+</div>
<div class="metric-label">Test Lines Written</div>
</div>
<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">25+</div>
<div class="metric-label">Direct Collaborators</div>
</div>
<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">30+</div>
<div class="metric-label">Active Channels</div>
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<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">3</div>
<div class="metric-label">Major Features</div>
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<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">-24K</div>
<div class="metric-label">Legacy Code Removed</div>
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<div class="metric-card">
<div class="metric-value">40</div>
<div class="metric-label">Peak Month Commits</div>
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<h3 class="chart-title">Monthly Activity Timeline</h3>
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<h3 class="chart-title">Self-Reflection Ratings (1-5 Scale)</h3>
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<h3 class="evidence-title">
1. Use AI: "I reflexively use AI tools to improve and amplify work outputs"
<span class="rating-badge rating-3-4">Rating: 3-4</span>
</h3>
<p><strong>Evidence Summary:</strong> While backend commits show limited direct AI tool usage, I demonstrated strong AI advocacy and enablement through documentation, tooling, and knowledge sharing.</p>
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<strong>AI-Assisted Development Infrastructure (September 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Created comprehensive 496-line CLAUDE.md documentation for merchant-analytics-api</li>
<li>Implemented <code>/new-task</code> and <code>/tackle-task</code> workflow commands</li>
<li>Enabled entire team to leverage AI tools with repository-specific context</li>
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<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>AI Tool Exploration & Cost Awareness (May 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Asked about running multiple Claude agents in parallel</li>
<li>Discussed AI usage cost tracking dashboards</li>
<li>Explored MCP server development for error management</li>
</ul>
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<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Team Enablement (September 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Taught colleague complete Claude Code setup via detailed DM session</li>
<li>Shared personal configuration and demonstrated live coding with AI assistance</li>
<li>Created practical examples of AI-driven code generation</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<span class="metric-highlight">15+ AI discussions</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">496 lines documentation</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">3 workflow templates</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">1 colleague onboarded</span>
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2. Technical Excellence: "I build craft skills by applying deep expertise"
<span class="rating-badge rating-4-5">Rating: 4-5</span>
</h3>
<p><strong>Evidence Summary:</strong> Demonstrated exceptional technical depth across full stack (Ruby/Rails, Rust, TypeScript/React, ClickHouse, SQL) with focus on type safety, performance, and production resilience.</p>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Organization Section Architecture (August 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Built complete multi-tenant analytics infrastructure with 1,700+ lines of production code</li>
<li>Implemented OrganizationSectionEligibilityChecker with distributed tracing, StatsD metrics</li>
<li>Created transactional OrganizationSectionPrependerService with pessimistic locking</li>
<li>900+ lines of comprehensive tests</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>SQL AST Type Safety Migration (July 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Refactored SQL queries from string interpolation to sqlparser::ast for compile-time safety</li>
<li>Eliminated SQL injection vulnerabilities across codebase</li>
<li>Now documented as mandatory pattern in CLAUDE.md</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Browser Standards Mastery (May 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Fixed critical production error by understanding DOMException error codes</li>
<li>Created isAbortError utility using numeric code (20) for post-minification reliability</li>
<li>93 lines of tests ensuring robustness</li>
</ul>
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<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<span class="metric-highlight">2,000+ test lines</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">29 languages supported</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">4 programming languages</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">15+ complex problems solved</span>
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<div class="evidence-item">
<h3 class="evidence-title">
3. Systems Thinking: "I navigate complexity by simplifying ruthlessly"
<span class="rating-badge rating-4-5">Rating: 4-5</span>
</h3>
<p><strong>Evidence Summary:</strong> Consistently demonstrated ability to design scalable architectures, reduce system complexity, and coordinate cross-service integrations.</p>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Multi-Tenant Architecture Design (August 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Designed system supporting analytics across multiple shops in an organization</li>
<li>Clean separation: Proto contracts → Service layer → Repository → ClickHouse</li>
<li>Cross-service integration with Access & Auth for permissions</li>
<li>Observability: StatsD metrics + ShopifyTracer spans</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Legacy Code Elimination (May 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Deleted 24,000 lines of legacy Live View code</li>
<li>Reduced maintenance burden and system complexity</li>
<li>Cleaner, more maintainable codebase</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Distributed Systems Coordination (September 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Managed ClickHouse distributed tables migration</li>
<li>Gradual rollout: 1% → 10% → 30% → 70% → 100%</li>
<li>Created 5 observability dashboards for monitoring</li>
<li>Zero-downtime migration</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<span class="metric-highlight">24,000 LOC eliminated</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">5 dashboards created</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">6 architectural layers</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">100% rollout success</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="evidence-item">
<h3 class="evidence-title">
4. Execution: "I execute with speed and ownership"
<span class="rating-badge rating-4-5">Rating: 4-5</span>
</h3>
<p><strong>Evidence Summary:</strong> Delivered multiple complex projects on schedule with high velocity during peak periods, while maintaining quality through comprehensive testing.</p>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Organization Section Sprint (August 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>40 commits in single month (peak productivity)</li>
<li>16-day cycle from planning to production-ready</li>
<li>Created 3 production-ready Rake tasks with 500+ lines of tests</li>
<li>Feature delivered on schedule with zero rollback</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Live View Fast Follows Launch (May 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Managed incident response during initial rollout issue</li>
<li>Rolled back, fixed, and redeployed within hours</li>
<li>Coordinated across Web, Core, Mobile, Design, Product teams</li>
<li>Achieved 100% rollout after gradual release</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Code Red Response (May 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Created error triage playbook with 4 priority areas</li>
<li>Reduced error noise: 8,069 → 745 events (90% reduction)</li>
<li>PR merged within 8 days</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<span class="metric-highlight">2.5 commits/week average</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">40 commits peak month</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">3 major launches</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">&lt;8 hours incident resolution</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="evidence-item">
<h3 class="evidence-title">
5. Influence: "I multiply impact by building trust and creating momentum"
<span class="rating-badge rating-4-5">Rating: 4</span>
</h3>
<p><strong>Evidence Summary:</strong> Built strong collaborative relationships across 25+ colleagues, demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring and knowledge sharing.</p>
<div style="margin-top: 20px;">
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Cross-Team Knowledge Transfer (May 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Proactively helped map visualization team with deck.gl expertise</li>
<li>Shared performance insights: 6000 markers with good performance using IconLayer</li>
<li>Accelerated another team's project with existing knowledge</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>AI Tool Evangelization (September 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Onboarded Mido Kabbara to Claude Code with detailed walkthrough</li>
<li>Shared personal configuration and best practices</li>
<li>Created 496-line documentation for team-wide AI adoption</li>
</ul>
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<div class="timeline-item">
<strong>Technical Standards Leadership (July 2025)</strong>
<ul>
<li>Established SQL AST as mandatory pattern replacing string interpolation</li>
<li>Documented in CLAUDE.md with examples and rationale</li>
<li>Prevented future SQL injection vulnerabilities team-wide</li>
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<span class="metric-highlight">25+ collaborators</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">30+ active channels</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">600+ Slack messages</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">15+ proactive helps</span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 30px; color: var(--text-secondary);">Three pieces of work I'm most proud of in the last 6 months:</p>
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<h3 class="spotlight-title">
<span class="spotlight-number">1</span>
Multi-Store Analytics Infrastructure
</h3>
<p>
Built complete backend architecture enabling Plus merchants to view aggregated analytics across multiple shops,
including eligibility services, transactional dashboard mutations, and production maintenance tasks with 900+ lines
of tests - representing our push into enterprise analytics.
</p>
<div style="margin-top: 15px;">
<span class="metric-highlight">August 2025</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">1,700+ production lines</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">900+ test lines</span>
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<span class="spotlight-number">2</span>
Legacy System Simplification
</h3>
<p>
Removed 24,000 lines of legacy Live View code while maintaining feature parity, demonstrating that technical excellence
includes knowing what to delete - this cleanup improved build times and reduced cognitive load for the entire team.
</p>
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<span class="metric-highlight">May 2025</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">-24,000 lines</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">Zero downtime</span>
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<h3 class="spotlight-title">
<span class="spotlight-number">3</span>
Production Resilience Improvements
</h3>
<p>
Led Code Red response that reduced error noise by 90% (8,069 → 745 events), created systematic triage process,
and built robust error handling utilities that prevented cascading failures - showing ownership of production quality
beyond feature delivery.
</p>
<div style="margin-top: 15px;">
<span class="metric-highlight">May-June 2025</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">90% error reduction</span>
<span class="metric-highlight">8-day resolution</span>
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Over the past six months, I've applied deep technical expertise and systems thinking to significantly advance
Shopify's analytics platform, directly supporting our mission to make commerce better for everyone.
</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Primary Impact: Multi-Organization Analytics Infrastructure</h3>
<p style="line-height: 1.8;">
Architected and delivered the Multi-Organization Analytics Infrastructure, which enables Shopify Plus merchants to
gain insights across their entire business portfolio. This involved building a complete backend system with 1,700+ lines
of production code, including the OrganizationSectionEligibilityChecker service with distributed tracing and comprehensive
observability. By implementing transactional consistency, pessimistic locking, and a 4-level request context fallback,
I ensured this critical feature could scale reliably for our largest enterprise customers.
</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Technical Debt Reduction & System Simplification</h3>
<p style="line-height: 1.8;">
The removal of 24,000 lines of legacy Live View code not only reduced maintenance burden but also improved system
performance and developer velocity. My migration from string-based SQL to type-safe AST construction eliminated an entire
class of security vulnerabilities while establishing a pattern now mandated across the team. These improvements compound
over time, enabling the team to move faster with higher confidence.
</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Knowledge Sharing & Team Enablement</h3>
<p style="line-height: 1.8;">
By creating comprehensive AI development documentation, onboarding colleagues to new tools, and proactively offering
expertise (like the deck.gl guidance that accelerated another team's map visualization project), I've helped raise the
technical bar across multiple teams. The SQL AST pattern I established and the AI workflow templates I created continue
to benefit the team long after their initial implementation.
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What would unlock me to be the best possible crafter and have an even greater impact on Shopify's mission:
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<h3 class="evidence-title">1. Expanding Influence Through Systematic Knowledge Sharing</h3>
<p>
While I actively help colleagues through Slack and pairing, creating more permanent documentation (architecture decision
records, system design docs, runbooks) would scale my technical expertise beyond real-time interactions. This would
particularly benefit onboarding new team members and preserving institutional knowledge as our analytics platform grows
in complexity.
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<h3 class="evidence-title">2. Increasing Delegation and Mentorship</h3>
<p>
Given my productivity levels (40 commits in peak months), I could achieve greater leverage by breaking down complex
projects into smaller pieces that junior engineers could own with my guidance. This would both accelerate team velocity
and create more growth opportunities for others.
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<h3 class="evidence-title">3. Strengthening Cross-Functional Product Thinking</h3>
<p>
While I excel at technical execution and system design, spending more time understanding merchant pain points directly
(through support tickets, user research sessions) would help me better prioritize technical investments and propose more
impactful solutions. This deeper product intuition would complement my technical skills to drive even better outcomes
for merchants.
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Repository Contributions</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shopify Core:</strong> 47 commits, focusing on Organization Section architecture</li>
<li><strong>merchant-analytics-api:</strong> 50 commits, including Organization Service and SQL AST refactoring</li>
<li><strong>analytics-ui-components:</strong> 6 commits with 4 merged PRs</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Slack Activity</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Channels:</strong> 30+ active channels including proj-analytics-liveview, proj-analytics-multi-store, code-red-exceptions-analytics</li>
<li><strong>Messages:</strong> 600+ Slack interactions demonstrating collaboration and knowledge sharing</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Key GitHub PRs</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/shop/world/pull/185625" target="_blank">Multi-store Analytics</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/shop/world/pull/63072" target="_blank">Legacy Code Cleanup (24k LOC)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Shopify/analytics-ui-components/pull/996" target="_blank">Code Red Error Handling Fix</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: var(--accent-primary);">Quantitative Highlights</h3>
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<strong style="color: var(--accent-primary);">103</strong> total commits
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<strong style="color: var(--accent-primary);">24,000</strong> lines removed
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<strong style="color: var(--accent-primary);">2,000+</strong> test lines
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<div style="padding: 15px; background: var(--bg-secondary); border-radius: 8px;">
<strong style="color: var(--accent-primary);">25+</strong> collaborators
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<strong style="color: var(--accent-primary);">3</strong> major features
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<strong style="color: var(--accent-primary);">40</strong> peak month commits
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<p>Self-Reflection Report Generated: October 2, 2025</p>
<p>Petar Bojinov - Staff Engineer, Analytics Team - Shopify</p>
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