George Thoppil
Rust Engineer at Webisoft
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Thoppil is a Rust engineer and seasoned software leader with over a decade of experience designing and delivering backend systems, APIs, and enterprise integrations across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS domains. He has held senior and lead roles at Shopify and Tier1, modernizing apps, integrating hardware and Salesforce platforms, and driving architectural decisions that improved performance and maintainability. Currently focused on Rust at Webisoft, he combines low-level systems thinking with product-oriented backend work and a practical management instinct honed from engineering leadership. An active contributor to the Open Food Network backend, he has experience improving checkout flows, subscription payment logic, and inventory movement checks for real-world supply-chain use cases. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Toronto with a track record of shipping reliable, auditable systems for banks, retailers, and marketplaces. Notably, his background spans both hands-on refactors (Rails, Kafka, React Native) and deep domain work in financial systems, making him comfortable across stacks and compliance-sensitive environments.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (10)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
rspec9
databases8
database8
sql8
f5
arm5
harvest5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 20 commits, 8 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Open Food Network project. Their work included adding regular expression operations, implementing checks for deleted items in stock movements, and adjusting payment states for subscription orders. Further, the user updated the order cycle to include more functionality. The user also made various code changes and adjustments to the existing checkout flow.
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georgethoppil/openfoodnetwork
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce. We're recruiting paid contributors, link below.
Contributions:61 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
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