Adam Berkan
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Berkan is a senior software engineer based in Calgary with a 25-year history building back-end systems for large-scale websites and 14 years of professional experience across major tech firms. He has deep distributed systems and storage expertise from decade-long tenures at Google (Search Infrastructure, Linux Kernel, Flash Storage, Cloud Storage) and now drives production services at Khan Academy. Adam’s career spans high-performance infrastructure at Microsoft and Altera through to cloud-native storage and large-scale education platforms, blending low-level systems thinking with product-focused delivery. Known for tackling hard reliability and performance problems, he brings engineering rigor from an Engineering Science degree at the University of Toronto and a track record of shipping at scale in both research-heavy and operational environments.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Ap.Sc. Engineering Science, Computer Option, B.Ap.Sc. Engineering Science, Computer Option at University of Toronto
French
Stackoverflow
115reputation
4kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (16)
code-generation8
typesafe8
codegen8
unit-test7
go-redis7
graphql7
go7
golang7
mutex6
graphql-client6
algorithm6
stl6
math6
redis6
pthreads6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aberkan/ridings
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
Khan/typed-context
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
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