Jacob Michels
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJacob Michels is a Senior Software Engineer at Shopify with six years of experience building developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, and supply chain security systems. He progressed rapidly through multiple engineering roles at Shopify, combining hands-on coding with infrastructure design to support secure, scalable deployments. Earlier co-op work at Manulife and a strong Computer Science background from the University of Guelph sharpened his skills in PySpark ETL, ASP.NET microservices, and CI/CD—where he notably cut PySpark unit test times from over an hour to under five minutes. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a practical focus on developer experience and testability, often improving engineering workflows and documentation alongside feature work. Curious and pragmatic, he blends backend systems work with security-minded infrastructure engineering to help teams ship reliably.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (Co-op), GPA 3.7/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (Co-op), GPA 3.7/4.0 at University of GuelphHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School
Github Skills (94)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jacobmichels/TailSTS
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Federate third-party tokens for Tailscale API access
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 74 pushes in 8 months
jacobmichels/Course-Sense-Go
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
UofG Course slot notification service
Contributions:6 reviews, 32 commits, 20 PRs in 2 months
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