Celina Assal
Senior Production Engineer at Shopify
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCelina Assal is a Senior Production Engineer based in Toronto with seven years of progressive experience at Shopify, where she moved from Dev Degree intern to leading production engineering efforts. She specializes in backend and infrastructure work—designing Kubernetes custom resources and controllers, building a parallel job execution API for ActiveJob, and architecting streaming pipelines that reduced data collection latency from hours to seconds. Comfortable across the full stack, Celina has shipped frontend, GraphQL, and Rails features as well as production-grade tooling that empowers developers to self-serve job infrastructure. Known for pragmatic performance improvements and automation, she blends deep technical execution with developer UX sensitivity, translating complex system needs into accessible tools.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at York University
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (8)
resumable9
php9
simulation9
stochastic9
contact-tracing8
dynamics8
simulator7
agent4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CelinaAssal/covasim
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
COVID-19 Agent-based Simulator (Covasim): a model for exploring coronavirus dynamics and interventions
Contributions:8 PRs, 20 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
crosswordagent-basedagentcovasimsimulation
CelinaAssal/rails
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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