Hovo Khachikyan
Senior Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHovo Khachikyan is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and leading cross-functional teams, currently contributing at Shopify from Toronto. He founded and ran Kloudseven, delivering MVPs for 15+ early-stage startups and shepherding products through pre-seed and angel funding rounds. His hands-on background spans architecting GraphQL analytics and role-based auth services in Go, Hadoop performance tuning for large health datasets, and teaching software design principles to university students. Hovo blends entrepreneurial product instincts with production-grade engineering, and off-hours he’s a baker of sourdough and pizza—an attention-to-craft habit that mirrors his iterative, quality-focused approach to software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Marc Garneau Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at York University
Armenian, Russian, English
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Github Skills (61)
plug10
hotel-booking10
activemodel10
caching9
css9
fetch9
materialize9
spree8
activerecord8
directive8
rails8
javascript8
webfonts7
ruby7
semantic-segmentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hovo/CV-SIFT
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
hovo/hovo.github.io
Mar 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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