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10 Shopify engineering leaders

These ten current and former Shopify engineering leaders include Shopify's VP & Head of Engineering and vice presidents and directors of engineering for areas such as advertising, payments, data platform, resiliency, streaming infrastructure and merchandising. Readers can learn how Shopify organizes engineering for commerce products and the platform behind them.

10 professionals1 companiesData retrieved September 29, 2026

Professionals to explore

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  1. Allison Malloy

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director Of Engineering, Merchandising at Shopify · Shopify

    Director Of Engineering, Merchandising at Shopify since 2022; the profile says she leads the engineering teams for Shopify's Merchandising product area, including Search & Discovery and Products and Pricing, and her headline reads Director of Engineering - Checkout & Agentic Storefronts. Other Shopify roles listed are Director of Engineering (2022) and Senior Development Manager (2019–2022).

  2. Farhan Thawar

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP & Head of Engineering · Shopify

    VP & Head of Engineering at Shopify since 2019, a President/Vice President-level role in the Engineering and Technical department; his headline reads Head of Engineering @ Shopify. His profile also lists current advisory roles at KIRO, 8090 Solutions and Beacon Holdings and a Board Member role at ResponseTek.

  3. Magi Agrama

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Vice President of Engineering, Resiliency · Shopify

    Vice President of Engineering, Resiliency at Shopify since 2026. The profile also lists an Engineering Director, Resiliency role at Shopify (2022–2026), and at Google a Senior staff Engineering Manager role (2019–2022) and a Senior Engineering Manager role (2017–2019).

  4. Masha Savitskaia

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP, Engineering · Shopify

    VP, Engineering at Shopify since 2025, with a headline that reads VP, Engineering @Shopify Advertising. Her profile lists Director of Engineering at Shopify (2024–2025), and at Microsoft she was GM, Microsoft Ads Platform (2022–2024) and Partner GPM, Audience Marketplace (2022).

  5. Maxwell Dayvson Da Silva

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP Engineering · Shopify

    VP Engineering at Shopify since 2021; the profile says he leads a global cross-functional team that builds products and platforms to help merchants start, grow and succeed on Shopify. He was Senior Director of Engineering, Head of Rider (D2) at Lyft (2020–2021) and Vice President of Engineering at The New York Times (2019).

  6. Patrick Joyce

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP of Engineering · Shopify

    VP of Engineering at Shopify since 2025; the profile says he leads engineering for products that generate more than $5 billion in annual revenue. His other Shopify roles listed are Director of Engineering, Retail (2023–2025) and Director of Engineering, Scale (2021–2023), and he was VP of Engineering at Stitch Fix (2018–2021).

  7. Rajpreet Bajwa

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP Engineering · Shopify

    VP Engineering at Shopify since 2026, with a Director Of Engineering, Data Platform role at Shopify listed from 2022 without an end date. Before Shopify, the profile lists Senior Software Engineering Manager (2017–2022) and Software Engineering Manager (2011–2017) roles at Google.

  8. Tim Mead

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Engineering · Shopify

    Former Director of Engineering at Shopify (2023–2025); the profile says he led Shopify's Ads portfolio, including products that boosted merchants' own advertising, an ad platform for the Shop marketplace and automated off-site ad buying. He was Senior Engineering Manager at Pinterest (2020–2022) and Engineering Manager at Facebook (2017–2020).

  9. Vidya Mani

    LinkedIn

    Experience: VP of Engineering, Payments · Shopify

    Former VP of Engineering, Payments at Shopify (2024–2025), a President/Vice President-level role in the Engineering and Technical department. The profile also lists Chief Technology Officer at Bitwala (2021–2022), VP Engineering, RippleNet at Ripple (2020–2021) and Director of Engineering, Payments and Data at Braintree (2014–2020).

  10. Vinay Shah

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Engineering - Streaming Infrastructure · Shopify

    Director of Engineering - Streaming Infrastructure at Shopify since 2022; the profile says the streaming team enables publishing, processing, consuming and moving data in near real time for mission-critical use cases at Shopify. He was Director - Observability Engineering at Netflix (2018–2022) and Engineering Manager - Fault Detection Engineering there (2015–2018).

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Match the leader's product or platform area to your question, since merchant-facing products, payments, ads and infrastructure teams each face different engineering tradeoffs. Check whether each Shopify role is current or ended so you know which period of the company's engineering organization the person can speak to.

Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01How does Shopify balance platform reliability work against shipping new merchant features?
  2. 02What does it take to build real-time data and streaming infrastructure for a large commerce platform?
  3. 03How should an engineering organization be structured around revenue-generating products like payments and ads?

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