Corwin Brown
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Denton, Texas, United States
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SeniorCorwin Brown is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years’ experience building high-scale backend and platform systems, currently leading customer data and developer tooling at Shopify from Denton, Texas. He specializes in low-latency, high-throughput data services (including a Rust service serving tens of thousands QPS with sub-10ms latency), observability, and AI-enabled developer workflows. His background spans production reliability at Meta/Facebook, real-time ingestion systems and IAM tooling at Bloomreach, and platform automation across Fitbit, Rackspace, and universities. Corwin blends hands-on systems engineering with technical leadership—mentoring peers, translating stakeholder KPIs into delivery plans, and shipping both infrastructure and product-facing tooling. Colleagues would call him pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to move teams from brittle operations to observable, self-service platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (32)
network-configuration10
python10
automation10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
ssh10
pypy9
jython8
cffi7
cli7
docker7
virtual6
pypi6
cython6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
blakfeld/Family-Name-Draw
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
drawreactrandomlyhat
blakfeld/salt-shaker
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:28 commits in 18 days
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