Kira Shillis
Senior Engineering Manager at Thumbtack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKira Shillis is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Toronto with nine years of experience building and leading engineering teams across fintech, consumer platforms, and big data. She combines hands-on backend expertise in Node.js, Python, SQL/noSQL systems and serverless architectures with strong leadership and cross-functional communication skills. Kira has driven migrations and analytics tooling at scale—transferring ETL pipelines to Luigi/Hive and delivering real-time reporting and A/B testing dashboards—while also shipping customer-facing services and integrations. Her background spans startups and large enterprises (Thumbtack, Setter, Scotiabank, Kobo), giving her a pragmatic balance of speed and reliability. She mentors engineers from code review to system design and often bridges data and application layers to accelerate product decisions. A detail that sets her apart is a history of building both backend pipelines and lightweight frontend analytics UIs, enabling end-to-end ownership of data-driven features.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Project Management, Certificate, Project Management at Sheridan CollegeHonours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering at University of Toronto - University of Trinity College
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
facebook-messenger6
facebook6
chat5
javascript4
messenger4
messaging4
Github contributions (1)
ShellMonkeys/fb-messenger-es6
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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