Charles Ng
Senior Production Engineering Manager at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCharles Ng is a Senior Production Engineering Manager at Shopify with 11+ years of experience building and scaling global infrastructure and notification platforms. He leads the Communications Infrastructure group—overseeing Edge Infrastructure, Email Deliverability and Notifications—and has a track record of forming and consolidating teams to simplify systems and leverage cloud partners. His achievements include architecting Shopify’s edge migration to Cloudflare, automating DDoS mitigation and WAF controls, and driving an 18+ month SMS A2P10DLC migration across the company. Skilled at hiring and developing leadership depth, he grows teams from small startups to multi-team platforms while owning vendor relationships, DNS and TLS automation at scale. Based in Ottawa and trained in software engineering at the University of Waterloo, he combines deep low-level networking and ops experience with product-minded platform strategy—often surfacing technical solutions that reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B. Math, Computer Science / Software Engineering, B. Math, Computer Science / Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (92)
docker-container10
ddos-protection10
ipv410
mistral10
golang10
ollama10
observium10
llama10
go10
pypi10
docker10
startpage10
nextjs10
react10
activemerchant9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
charlescng/docker-containers
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Docker containers and unRAID docker templates
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 49 commits in 4 years 3 months
dockerdocker-containerobserviumunraid
charlescng/baseimage-docker
May 2021 - May 2025
A minimal Ubuntu base image modified for Docker-friendliness
Contributions:12 pushes in 4 years
s6docker-imagelinuxbase-imagedocker
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