ABOUT

Senior-led Shopify development with direct communication.

Parkdale Digital is a Toronto-based, remote-first web development studio led by Shawn Santiago. The focus is practical Shopify implementation, careful releases, and work that merchant teams can keep owning after launch.

Founder-led

Work with the person responsible for the outcome.

Parkdale is intentionally small and senior-led. Project conversations stay close to the implementation details, so technical tradeoffs, release risk, and business priorities do not get lost between sales, strategy, and development handoffs.

Founder

Shawn Santiago

Shawn leads Parkdale Digital and is the direct contact for project fit, scoping, technical direction, and review. The work is oriented around Shopify storefronts, CRO implementation, performance cleanup, and maintainable web systems.

  • Direct project communication
  • Senior technical review
  • Remote-first delivery from Toronto
Operating model

Small by design.

Engagements are scoped around the real backlog: theme work, migrations, CRO changes, integrations, custom pages, or ongoing support. When a project needs additional specialist help, responsibilities should be clear before work starts.

  • Clear scope and release expectations
  • QA and handoff considered before launch
  • Named responsibilities before launch
Principles

Implementation should make the next release easier.

The point is not to add clever code. The point is to ship changes that are understandable, testable, and useful for the team that has to maintain the site next month.

01

Reusable over one-off.

Theme sections, templates, snippets, and custom code should be built so merchant teams can use them without creating future cleanup work.

02

Release risk is part of the work.

Redirects, QA, responsive behavior, accessibility, analytics impact, and rollback paths matter as much as the visual change.

Need Shopify help without the agency maze?

Send the current store, the backlog, and the constraint that matters most. Parkdale will recommend the right next step.