Summary
Marek Kudlacz is a Senior Engineering Manager with 22 years of experience building embedded, systems, and backend software, now leading engineering at Shopify from Toronto. He combines deep C/C++ and systems expertise across ARM, x86/x64, Linux, QNX and mobile platforms with hands-on tooling knowledge in Docker, Jenkins and custom build systems. His background includes architecting cross-platform C++ service frameworks for high-frequency trading at OANDA and adapting Android runtimes for BlackBerry’s QNX platform, demonstrating a talent for making mismatched systems interoperate. Marek is equally comfortable shipping low-level performance optimizations and designing developer-facing tooling that reduces deployment pain and eases diagnostics. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product needs and engineering realities while mentoring teams to deliver reliable, production-grade systems.
22 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
H.B.Sc, Computer Science - Software Engineering, H.B.Sc, Computer Science - Software Engineering at University of Toronto - Woodsworth College
English, Polish