Kyra Stephen
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKyra Stephen is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience specializing in backend systems that process continuous, event-driven data at scale. Currently at Shopify, she builds resilient, modular APIs and Flink/Kafka pipelines that handle billions of events per day and drives observability and reliability for high-traffic marketing systems. Her background spans Golang, GraphQL, AWS/GCP integrations, and cloud-native data processing, with a history of improving conversion and performance in prior roles at Borrowell and Indigo. A strong communicator and collaborative scrum teammate, she pairs technical craftsmanship with product empathy to solve real user pain points. Outside work she experiments with personal projects and new APIs—evidenced by a public portfolio—and she has a track record of leadership and community impact from founding Canada’s first Black hackathon at UofT.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English
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Github Skills (6)
hydrogen10
oclif10
shopify9
cli9
typescript8
ecommerce6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kbop543/Skeleton
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
kbop543/KyraPersonalPage
Apr 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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