KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Technology Leadership - Shop at Shopify. Hiring, globally 🗺

Strategy, People (300 eng) & Technology of Shop Pay, Shop AI, Shop App, Shopify Collective, Shopify Collabs and Shopify Audiences

Scaled, tuned and accelerated teams, product & technology for Shopify's consumer products and merchant services.

Grew Shop to one of the most valuable suite of commerce products with Shop Pay as one of the worlds most popular payment methods and Shop App as one of the most important mobile shopping apps in North America. Initiated the next phase of expansion of Shop with AI and machine learning products and Shop Cash (Shop's loyalty & acquisition system).

Shopify

VP of Engineering

Co-created Shop Pay & Shop App.

Came to Shopify through the acquisition of Tictail with the mandate to build mobile centric consumer products.

Transitioned a small team and technology from Arrive (package tracking app) and elements of Shopify Payments to establish Shop App & Shop Pay - today two of the most important mobile commerce products on the planet.

Director Of Engineering

Co-founded Tictail, an online store platform and the home to over 100,000 online stores, Tictail Payments and Tictail's mobile marketplace. Acquired by Shopify in 2018.

As a founder I naturally wore many hats but my primary one was the one of a CTO. Led development and scaling of technology, product, engineering team, leadership and strategy through the journey from 0 to 100,000+ online stores as well as pivoting the company and strategy from web centric store builder to mobile focused consumer marketplace.
Raised $32m from leading investors such as Creandum, Thrive and Balderton.

Tictail

Founder & CTO (Acquired by Shopify)

Shipped Blocket mobile products & user account platforms

Blocket.se

Technical Lead

Software Engineer

Within the Corporate Performance Management department at Logica (at the time WM-Data) I started as part of a team responsible for development Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions for our telecom customers. By the end of my tenure here I was independently leading data warehouse and business intelligence solutions of broadband & colocation wholesale operations for one of Europe's largest telecom operators.

Logica

Performance Management Consultant

During my time at university, I missed the hands-on experience of building software and products. To address this, I co-founded Tricycle. At Tricycle, we had the opportunity to develop bespoke e-commerce solutions for online stores and marketplaces.

Siavash Ghorbani