Sean Orfila

About Sean Orfila

Seasoned e-comm problem solver / builder with decade+ of full-stack web development experience, primarily working on Shopify headless, themes, custom integrations, and Shopify apps. Dad! Surfing / fishing / snowboarding / burrito enthusiast

Experience

1. Solutions Architect

   Shopify

   Oct 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Rigorous learning and proactive product enablement for high frequency platform releases, API changes, and tooling.• Design and build custom harnesses for agentic tooling that reduce friction in highly complex platform migrations, accelerating time-to-value and minimizing risk for merchants at scale.• Serve as a technical advisor on custom storefront implementations — spanning headed themes, custom middleware layers, and fully headless architectures — ensuring solutions are performant, maintainable, and aligned with platform capabilities.• Proactively identify opportunities to deepen platform adoption and increase ROI for merchants, partnering cross-functionally to shape solutions that drive long-term retention and growth.

Education

• Goldenwest College

  Associate of Arts (A.A.), Education

  2000 — 2002

• California State University, Long Beach

  Bachelor's Degree, Journalism

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Css
• Sass
• Html
• Php
• Wordpress
• SEO
• User Experience
• Web Design
• Web Development
• Social Media Marketing
• Social Media
• Advertising
• Front-End
• Graphic Design
• User Interface Design
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Symfony Framework
• Symfony
• Scalable Vector Graphics (Svg)
• Twig
• Scss
• Data Visualization