Summary
Malaz Alamir is a Development Manager at Shopify with a decade of experience evolving from an international business graduate and ex-banker/recruiter into a hands-on software leader. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Shopify—shipping, logistics, and fulfillment—building resilient APIs and owning cross-domain projects while mentoring and interviewing developers. Comfortable across backend Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, MySQL and modern frontend stacks, he combines product-first engineering with routine operational ownership of monitoring and incident reduction. His background in recruiting and customer-facing banking roles gives him an unusual edge in stakeholder communication and hiring calibration. Known internally as a project “champion,” he bridges UX, design and product to deliver high-impact launches at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Bachelor's Degree, International Business/Trade/Commerce, 10.0GPA (out of 12), Bachelor's Degree, International Business/Trade/Commerce, 10.0GPA (out of 12) at Carleton University
Bachelor's Degree, International Business, Bachelor's Degree, International Business at Technische Universität Berlin
German, Arabic, English