John Meehan
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Meehan is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, large-scale data and infrastructure systems across startups and high-growth companies. Currently at Shopify after a recent role focused on data infrastructure at Onehouse, he brings deep hands-on experience from positions at Yugabyte and Tranquil Data, plus early database engineering work at S&P Capital IQ. He pairs a practical engineering focus with rigorous academic training—a PhD in Systems Engineering from Brown and a BS in Computer Science from Notre Dame—enabling him to bridge research-grade systems thinking with production realities. Known for operating at the intersection of databases, distributed systems, and platform reliability, he has repeatedly delivered foundational infrastructure that supports product velocity. Based in Edwardsville, Illinois, he combines remote-friendly discipline with experience in both startup and enterprise environments, making him adept at scaling teams and systems. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex system design into maintainable operational practices that reduce incident surface and improve observability.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Engineering at Brown UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
rocksdb10
databases10
c-language10
system-testing10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
relational-databases10
qtest10
sql-database10
database10
testing10
distributed-database9
sql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
s-store/sstore-soft
May 2017 - May 2017
A soft release of the S-Store repo
Contributions:5 commits in 8 days
jmeehan16/esper-voter
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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