Summary
Giuliano Bossi is a seasoned CTO and founder with 25+ years of software engineering experience and a track record of building platforms, APIs and engineering organizations from the ground up. He has led large, multi-discipline teams (70+ engineers) at Shopify and driven platform-scale efforts across app infrastructure, extensibility, data sync and developer tooling. Deeply versed in both OO and functional paradigms, his hands-on background spans Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, C/C++ and JavaScript, with practical experience in distributed systems, messaging, AI and computer graphics. A long-time practitioner and advocate of Extreme Programming, TDD and lean/evolutionary design, he combines rigorous engineering practices with a constant drive to make development better, faster and cheaper. He also brings an unusual longevity in the craft—starting coding on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and running an Italian XP community—illustrating both early passion and a sustained commitment to practitioner-led process improvement. Based in Toronto, he blends product-aware technical leadership with mentoring and organizational transformation expertise.
15 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Milano - Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali
English, Italian, German