Summary
Jeremy De Bonet is a seasoned engineering executive with 15 years of experience leading platform-scale transformations and building products that bridge research-grade AI, computer vision, and production systems. Currently VP of Engineering at Shopify and chair/co-founder of MakeFair AI, he has a rare track record of founding and scaling startups (including Building Machines and CoPiloted) while driving large-scale innovation at Amazon on the Just Walk Out retail platform. Jeremy blends deep technical rigor from MIT graduate work with hands-on leadership across hardware, firmware, ML, and cloud services, and he excels at turning architectural clarity into organizational change. He is comfortable moving between early-stage product invention and the operational demands of global services, and has repeatedly taken technologies from prototype to manufacturing and sustained operations. An entrepreneur at heart, he pairs CEO-level strategy with an engineer’s attention to systems, process, and measurable outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (all but dissertation) Computer Science, PhD (all but dissertation) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Newburgh Free Academy
PS 6
BS Applied Mathematics, BS Applied Mathematics at Columbia University