Summary
Gabi Stefanini is an engineering manager at Shopify with 11 years of experience building and hardening mission-critical web platforms, including bringing SSL encryption to thousands of merchants and helping upgrade Shopify’s codebase to Rails 5. She now focuses on delivering internal tools that boost team productivity across the company while maintaining a hands-on engineering perspective. Gabi is committed to mentoring and demystifying coding for beginners, actively encouraging contributions to open source. Her background spans North American and European education, blending McGill and the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland foundations. Known for shipping pragmatic, secure solutions, she pairs systems-level thinking with a teacher’s patience to scale both software and developer skills.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at McGill University
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French