Summary
Endri Gjiri is a Staff Developer at Shopify with 11 years of experience building and leading front-end and full-stack engineering efforts across startups and scale-ups. He progressed from founding an educational web tool to technical leadership as CTO of Zoocasa and senior engineering roles at Quandl before joining Shopify, reflecting strong product sensibility combined with hands-on delivery. Endri specializes in crafting user-focused, maintainable interfaces and driving team practices that scale, informed by an academic background in chemistry and education that surfaces in his systematic, explanatory approach to problem solving. Based in Canada, he blends technical depth with leadership—mentoring teams, shaping architecture, and shipping high-impact web experiences. An intriguing non-obvious detail: his early work building an interactive organic chemistry learning site demonstrates a knack for turning complex domain knowledge into intuitive digital products.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Chemistry, Biology (Intermediate/Senior), Graduated with 4.0 GPA, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Chemistry, Biology (Intermediate/Senior), Graduated with 4.0 GPA at University of Toronto
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, Graduated with Honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, Graduated with Honours at York University
English, Italian, Albanian