Nael Shawwa
Building at TechTO
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNael Shawwa is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building product-led engineering organizations and shipping developer-forward platforms. Currently building Cliff, an AI sales coach for GTM teams, he blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to accelerate revenue-facing workflows. He has led engineering at scale as VP Engineering at Shutterstock and Perpetua, and advised product and technology teams at Layla while mentoring senior leaders through Plato. A Toronto-based community builder, he co-founded #DevTO and serves as its Community Director, reflecting a long-standing commitment to developer ecosystems. Nael holds M.Eng and B.Eng.Mgmt degrees from McMaster and completed Seth Godin’s altMBA cohort, combining technical depth with leadership and creative problem solving. Colleagues know him for incremental, compounding improvements—1% better every day—that translate into measurable team and product momentum.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng Masters of Computational Engineering and Sciences, M.Eng Masters of Computational Engineering and Sciences at McMaster UniversityaltMBA35 Ruby Cohort, altMBA35 Ruby Cohort at altMBA
Arabic, English
Stackoverflow
348reputation
168kreached
16answers
1question
Github Skills (48)
mongoose9
mongoose-plugin9
two-way9
data-migration8
bind8
imgix8
editors7
src7
migration7
srcset7
mongodb6
text-editing6
callback6
nodejs6
iphone6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flashstockinc/mongoose-data-migrate
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Data migration framework for node.js using mongoose
Contributions:4 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
mongoose-pluginnode-jsdata-migrationnodejsmigrations
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