Bahar Pourazar
Staff Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBahar Pourazar is a Staff Developer with a decade of software engineering experience, currently leading strategic initiatives for Shopify’s AI platform and Sidekick to accelerate AI adoption across merchant and developer ecosystems. Based in Ottawa, he combines hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, shaping platform capabilities into developer-friendly features that solve real merchant needs. His career spans roles from network-focused engineering at Ciena to research and development positions during graduate studies, giving him a strong foundation in both systems and applied research. Known as a passionate problem solver and researcher, he brings curiosity and practical rigor to large-scale AI platform work—often translating complex research ideas into production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyMaster of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Memorial University of Newfoundland
French, Spanish, Persian, English
Github Skills (47)
kubernetes10
docker10
shopify10
oclif10
haml10
go10
hydrogen10
intellisense9
markup9
parser9
markup-language9
liquid9
scheduling9
cli9
postman8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bahar-p/dotfiles
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
bahar-p/connect_four
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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