Martin Larochelle
Principal Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMartin Larochelle is a Principal Developer with over a decade of experience building scalable e-commerce and mobile systems, currently leading Inventory, Order, and Fulfillment efforts at Shopify. He previously served as Chief Architect and head of an innovation lab at Macadamian, where he drove IoT, mobile, and natural language interface initiatives and introduced continuous delivery practices. Martin combines deep systems-level expertise (C/C++, VoIP, embedded systems) with modern web stacks (Ruby on Rails) and cloud IoT services, enabling him to bridge legacy telecom protocols and cloud-native product delivery. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he’s known for stabilizing high-traffic flash sales and rapidly ramping on new domains to unblock teams. Based in Ottawa, he pairs pragmatic architecture and project estimation skills with a track record of leading distributed teams to consistent on-time deliveries.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Engineering, Bachelor Computer Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
contenteditable10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
wysiwyg10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
rich-text-editor10
rich-text9
hotel-booking9
ckeditor9
twilio-api9
twilio9
ace-editor9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Larochelle/dotfiles
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Larochelle/rails
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
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