Summary
Bill Roy is a development manager at Shopify with a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams across media, payments, and e-commerce domains. He progressed through individual contributor and staff roles into management at Shopify, bringing hands-on expertise from senior developer and technical lead positions at Paystone and Cineplex Digital Media. Bill thrives on turning product requirements into reliable, scalable systems and has experience spanning software development, test engineering, and team leadership. Based in Ontario, he pairs a Computer Science degree from Western University with a track record of rapid progression and cross-functional collaboration in fast-moving product environments. Notably, his background includes both developer-in-test work and production engineering, giving him a pragmatic view of quality, automation, and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Western University