Jonathan Harlap
Senior Engineering Manager at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJonathan Harlap is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 25+ years of software and systems experience and two decades of hands-on delivery across startups and scale-ups. He has led platform and product engineering at companies like Shopify, ecobee and Wattpad, building foundational systems that powered everything from accessible consumer reading platforms to HIPAA-compliant medical data services and the first atlas of normal brain development. At ecobee he directed platform work that materially reduced North American energy demand — delaying construction of polluting peak plants — while improving comfort and cost for millions of homes. Jonathan blends a builder’s curiosity with systems thinking, pairing deep technical craftsmanship with a culture-first leadership style that emphasizes ownership, blamelessness and data-informed decisions. He frequently operates at the intersection of research and product, having shipped widely used neuroimaging and educational tools as well as large-scale consumer services.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Concordia University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (114)
tropo9
unicode-range9
human-language8
amazon-sqs8
checker8
libphonenumber8
amazon8
opengl7
language-detection7
security7
windows7
component-library7
connected7
linux7
shopify7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jharlap/go-lang-detector
Aug 2016 - Mar 2024
A small library in golang, that detects the language of a text.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 7 months
golangsource-code-analysismagic-numbers
jharlap/go-101
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Introduction to Go (for programmers) workshop materials
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years
golangworkshop-materialsgoworkshop
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