Arbel Hakopian
Director Of Engineering at eCommerce, Web and IT
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolArbel Hakopian is a hands-on Director of Engineering with 12+ years building and leading eCommerce and web platforms across DTC brands, agencies, and SaaS startups, currently driving engineering at Raycon. He combines deep Shopify Plus expertise (Checkout Extensibility, Liquid, Themes 2.0, integrations) with full‑stack JavaScript and headless commerce architecture to align technology roadmaps with measurable business outcomes. Known for hiring and scaling high-retention remote and nearshore teams, he pairs mentoring and change management with a pragmatic focus on performance, CRO, accessibility, and analytics. His background spans migrations from Magento to Shopify, complex data orchestration, and microservices at companies like Spanx, Nacelle, and BH Cosmetics. An avid problem-solver and open-source contributor, Arbel even explored niche UI tricks (see his GitHub CSS experiment) and advocates using AI to boost engineering productivity.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. MBA, M.S. MBA at MBA - Ecole de Management de MarseilleBachelor of Science - B.S. Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.S. Telecommunications Engineering at B.S. Telecommunications Engineering - Azad University
English, Armenian, Persian, French
Stackoverflow
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html
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jquery
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javascript
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twitter-bootstrap
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css
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
css10
html10
twitter-bootstrap9
json9
jquery9
jsfiddle9
border6
google-chrome6
stringify6
css-selectors6
responsive-design6
canvas6
z-index6
shopify-api4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
arbelh/HalfStyle
May 2014 - May 2018
Style Half of a Character by CSS
Contributions:17 commits, 4 pushes, 4 comments in 4 years 1 month
css
arbelh/node-youtube-playlist
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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