Franklyn D'souza is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience designing data platforms and developer-facing infrastructure. At Shopify he led initiatives including a containerized Python notebook platform on Kubernetes, a migration from JSON to columnar Parquet with distributed reconciliation tooling, and exploratory production work building self-serve analytics datasets on Apache Druid. He combines deep systems and data engineering expertise with practical product-minded execution, enabling teams across the company to access and analyze data faster. With a background in electrical engineering and early firmware and Java experience at Research In Motion, he brings a hardware-aware perspective to scalable software problems. Now based in Canada, he continues to focus on making complex data platforms accessible to non-specialists.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering at McMaster University
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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Franklyn D'souza - Staff Software Developer at Shopify