Kirsten Westeinde
Senior Development Manager at Shopify
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKirsten Westeinde is a senior development manager at Shopify in Squamish with 11 years of experience progressing from Ruby on Rails developer to leading engineering teams and shipping ML-enabled products. She has spent the last decade at Shopify across roles from developer to senior developer and management, pairing hands-on technical fluency—particularly in web development and machine learning work on Kit—with people leadership. Kirsten is skilled at guiding cross-functional teams through complex product deliveries while maintaining velocity and code quality. Her background spans international engineering education and early-career roles in broadcast and healthcare software, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to solving real-world problems. She balances technical depth with mentorship and operational rigor, thriving at the intersection of product, data, and engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at College of Engineering PuneBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Software Engineering at Western UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Carleton University
Spanish, French
Github Skills (33)
shopify-api10
hotel-booking10
shopify9
admin9
polaris9
spree8
apache-kafka8
rest8
rails8
programming-language8
golang8
kafka-consumer7
ruby7
kafka7
go7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kwestein/Ford-Fulkerson
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:61 commits in 1 month
Shopify/xeroizer
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
accountingapiaccounting-systemxeroapi-library
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