Jacob Rydh
Senior Development Manager at Shopify
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJacob Rydh is a Senior Development Manager based in Malaga with five years of leadership experience building and scaling engineering teams at Shopify. He has progressed from hands-on engineering management at Tictail—where he led marketplace product teams across frontend and backend stacks—to managing managers within Shopify’s Shop organization, focusing on talent growth, hiring, and technical planning. With a background in data science and machine learning from roles at Softronic and Expektra, he brings a data-driven mindset to product and platform decisions, comfortable with cloud services and ML deployment patterns. Trained as a computer scientist at KTH, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with people-first management, mentoring engineers through career progression and organizational change. An interesting thread through his career is blending consumer-facing product experience with analytics-driven forecasting work, enabling pragmatic tradeoffs between UX and data complexity.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Naturvetenskap, Naturvetenskap at Södra Latins gymnasiumKTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (3)
shopify7
javascript6
typescript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Shopify/quilt
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
javascriptshopifytypescript
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