Summary
Daniel Parpal is a senior software developer at Shopify and an award-winning lecturer at HEC Montréal with over a decade of experience leading full-stack projects and mentoring engineers. He has repeatedly driven product-facing features at scale—most notably shipping flexible checkout options like pay-in-4 and Shop Pay integrations—and has led backend/frontend teams in messaging products. Daniel blends hands-on engineering with instructional design, having created internal developer training programs and won HEC Montréal’s Best Lecturer award in 2019. His background spans RPA delivery for banking, freelance product work, and even industrial construction coordination, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and operational fluency. Based in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, he pairs an MBA with a mechanical engineering degree, which informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to building reliable software and developing developer talent.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management at HEC Montréal