Michael Zaporozhets
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Zaporozhets is a T-shaped technology leader and Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering organisations and design systems across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on engineering and people leadership—recently moving from Engineering Manager roles at EA and Shopify into a Staff Engineer role at Shopify while simultaneously founding Hospo.app. His background spans front-end design systems, full-stack web development instruction, and creative technology, giving him a rare blend of product empathy and platform-level technical depth. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions in fast-moving teams, he balances strategic architecture with boots-on-the-ground implementation. Outside corporate roles he channels entrepreneurial curiosity into Hospo.app, reflecting a continual focus on solving real-world customer problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St Mary’s Cathedral CollegeDesign Thinking for Innovation (DTR101) Human Centred Design/Customer Experience Strategy, Design Thinking for Innovation (DTR101) Human Centred Design/Customer Experience Strategy at RMIT University
Ukrainian, Russian
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Github Skills (94)
cms10
predix10
keystonejs10
javascript10
nodejs10
css10
headless-cms10
graphql10
react10
jquery9
html9
socket9
sketch9
predix-ui9
shim9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelZaporozhets/abstractconnect
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
A Design Token extractor for teams using Abstract & Javascript
Contributions:16 releases, 43 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
cssjavascripttokensketchdesign-system
MichaelZaporozhets/michaelzaporozhets.com
Jun 2016 - Jun 2021
Personal Website
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
react
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