Your Shopify storefront, run by one senior engineer.
Steadro is a senior fractional Shopify practice. One operator, not an agency. I take on a small number of established D2C brands and own the storefront end to end. No team to brief, no account manager between us.
Most sites describe a team.
This one describes a person.
I’m Kyle Shepard, a senior Shopify Plus engineer. I’ve spent years working inside D2C brands rather than billing them from the outside, including three years full-time on Hydrow’s ecommerce team, through a headless Shopify Plus migration and the monitoring system I built from scratch. I’ve delivered enterprise-scale replatforms and kept busy storefronts fast and online.
I know what it feels like from your side of the table: briefing a third agency on the same Shopify project, paying for the senior they sold you on and then only ever hearing from a junior who’s CC’d on every email, watching a “quick” checkout change turn into a month of finger-pointing.
Steadro is the practice I wish those brands could have hired. One senior engineer, end to end. The person you talk to is the person doing the work, on every meeting, every commit, every test result. And because I automate the repetitive parts with Shopify Flow, n8n, and AI-assisted tooling, one person can carry a Plus storefront without cutting corners.
I’m at my best when the brand is past the experimental phase: real revenue, a real catalog, and enough operational complexity to break a generic theme. If that sounds like you, let’s talk.
- SaltairShopify Plus storefront & ops
- Hydrow3 yrs full-time · headless migration, monitoring
- PacificIQPremier Partner consulting · 20+ brands
Specialist work outside this stack, like large headless rebuilds, custom apps, or brand identity, gets sourced through trusted contractors. You see the bill, with no markup.
Four ways to put a senior on your store.
Shopify Plus development
Theme architecture, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, and the performance work a generalist agency tends to skip. I design and ship the same build, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.
Migrations & replatforming
WordPress, ColdFusion, or custom, moved onto Shopify Plus. Phased rollouts, zero downtime, and a data model that survives contact with your real catalog.
Fractional engineering
I become the senior Shopify engineer you can’t quite justify hiring full-time. Embedded in your team’s tools on a monthly retainer, owning the storefront end to end.
Operations & automation
Day-to-day ops, app-stack cleanup, and the repetitive work handled with Shopify Flow, n8n, and AI-assisted tooling. The recurring tasks other shops bill you for stop costing you anything.
Receipts, not stock photography.
Full-time for three years. One headless Shopify Plus migration, and the entire incident and monitoring system built from scratch.
Migrated a decade-old ColdFusion and ElasticPath stack onto Shopify Plus. Zero customer-facing downtime, 8+ integrations rebuilt.
A reliable engineering backstop for a Shopify Premier Partner, across 20+ Plus brands.
Three ways to engage. Priced before the call gets weird.
For businesses already making sales but still pre-Shopify. A senior gets you launched right the first time.
- Store build on a clean, fast theme
- Core app stack and analytics wired up
- Launch checklist, run with you
- Handover docs you actually keep
A single contained build: a migration, a Functions or checkout project, a theme overhaul, or a CRO cycle. Scoped and priced firm before you sign.
- Timeline fixed before contract
- Weekly working session, async daily
- Design and code shipped by one person
- Post-delivery support window
Your embedded senior Shopify engineer. I work inside your existing tools and own the storefront roadmap with you.
- 40 hours/month, allocated weekly
- Embedded in Slack and GitHub
- Full storefront and ops ownership
- Capped client load, so you get real attention
Prices are starting points, quoted firm before any contract is signed. Because I automate the repetitive work with Flow, n8n, and AI-assisted tooling, an hour of mine ships more than an hour an agency bills you for.
Ask for a proposal→Why hire one engineer
instead of an agency.
The senior is the work.
When you hire Steadro, you hire me. The same person who scopes the work, writes the code, and answers your Slack. No account manager, no junior doing the real work behind a senior’s name.
One brain, end to end.
Theme, checkout, app stack, and operations all live in one head. No handoffs between vendors who blame each other when conversion drops, and no context lost in translation.
The grunt work is automated.
I lean on Shopify Flow, n8n, and AI tooling to kill the repetitive work: reporting, sync jobs, QA. It’s how one person can carry a Plus storefront without cutting corners.
I ship production code.
I came up writing production Shopify, not slide decks. I think in performance budgets and checkout edge cases first. If the work doesn’t move a number you can see, it isn’t worth doing.
The questions I answer every week.
01 Is Steadro an agency?
02 Who runs Steadro?
03 What size brands do you work with?
04 Do you do AI work?
05 How do you engage, project or retainer?
06 Where are you based?
07 What’s your availability?
08 How do you handle work outside your range?
09 How do I get started?
Tell me what you’re building. I’ll tell you if I can help.
Get in touch.
Tell me about your store and what you’re trying to fix. I read every message myself and reply within a day.
If it looks like a fit, I’ll suggest a call. Prefer email? Reach me at kyle@steadro.com.
Message sent.
I’ll get back to you within a day.
No spam, no pitch deck. Just a conversation.