Michael Truong
Backend Developer at Shopify
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Truong is a backend developer with eight years of diverse engineering experience, currently building billing systems at Shopify. He brings a holistic approach to system design and user experience, shaped by roles across SaaS, media encoding, QA, and teaching. His focus is on distributed systems and scalability, with hands-on experience shipping enterprise features and performance-sensitive media tooling. Michael's background teaching programming and mentoring junior learners informs his pragmatic, communicative development style. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he blends production-grade backend work with a continual drive to improve craft and engineering rigor.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Honours, Computer Science (Co-op), Bachelor of Computing, Honours, Computer Science (Co-op) at University of Guelph
Github Skills (6)
ios-application7
ios3
javascript1
os-development1
google-cast1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mtruon/PaintAR
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
An AR iOS application which embeds virtual painting models into real space.
Contributions:67 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 3 months
paintingiosembedsios-application
mtruon/mtruong-web
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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