Lawrence Mandel
VP Of Engineering, Shopify Foundations
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLawrence Mandel is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling software and teams at high-impact organizations, currently serving as VP of Engineering for Shopify Foundations. He has led critical platforms at Shopify and Mozilla, shipping systems used by millions and major enterprises while founding and contributing to open source projects. Lawrence combines deep technical judgment across release engineering, developer productivity, and payments with a proven ability to grow engaged, high-performing distributed teams. Colleagues know him as a hands-on coach and mentor who pairs strategy and planning with operational rigor to improve delivery and developer experience. Outside work he channels the same team-building energy into youth sports coaching, charitable fundraising, and the University of Toronto community. His background in software engineering and release leadership gives him a rare mix of product-scale execution and people-first leadership.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science Specialization in Software Engineering, M.Sc. Computer Science Specialization in Software Engineering at Western UniversityB.Sc. Computer Science and Human Biology, B.Sc. Computer Science and Human Biology at University of Toronto
Hebrew, English, French
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Github Skills (35)
ambient10
mozilla9
health8
bugzilla8
thunderbird8
mediawiki-extension7
mediawiki7
django7
xml6
eclipse6
firefox6
api6
rest6
http6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lmandel/memory
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 24 days
lmandel/moz-corsica
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ambientmozilla-officemozillacorsicacorsica-instance
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