Summary
Dan Menard is a seasoned web engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance JavaScript-driven user interfaces and managing developer teams at Shopify's Online Store group. He brings deep front-end craft from earlier work at Netflix optimizing UI for TV devices—where he squeezed performance from constrained hardware and deployed data-driven A/B experiments—to ship polished, measurable product improvements. Comfortable across client and server code, he pairs hands-on development with people leadership, mentoring other web development managers and engineers. Based in Ottawa and grounded in a BSc in Software Engineering, he combines a pragmatic focus on UX detail with a history of speaking, blogging, and hiring that helps scale strong engineering cultures.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
English, French