Andrew Knowles
Senior Software Programmer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Knowles is a Senior Software Programmer based in Montreal with eight years of professional experience building scalable systems at companies like Shopify, Morgan Stanley, and Paytm Labs. He brings deep practical expertise across Ruby on Rails, Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, functional programming, cloud/distributed computing, and database-driven architectures. Known for focusing on automation, CI, observability, and performance, he blends hands-on coding with software architecture and team-oriented delivery. He has embedded systems roots in automotive software and a history of shipping production services at both large enterprises and high-growth platforms. Continuously learning, he’s exploring Rust, Haskell, category theory, and formal methods—indicating a strong interest in provably correct and high-assurance systems. Outside pure engineering he’s curious about AI/ML, economics and music, which inform a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (10)
invocation9
callgraph6
shopify5
introspection4
ruby3
high-performance2
coverage2
python1
sorbet1
cli1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phaselockedloop/spectracommunications
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
phaselockedloop/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Mar 2026
Contributions:248 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 5 months
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