Natalia Maximo
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalia Maximo is a Senior Engineer with 9 years of experience building reliable platform and CI tooling at companies including Shopify, Microsoft, Google, and SurveyMonkey. Grounded in a strong academic background in computer science and currently pursuing a PhD focused on cybersecurity and cryptography at uOttawa, she blends deep theoretical knowledge—from group to graph theory—with practical engineering to improve security and performance in production systems. At Shopify she drives developer productivity for commerce infrastructure, and previously contributed to widely used open-source tooling like Google's capirca by hardening tests and improving backend reliability. Comfortable in both research and large-scale engineering environments, she brings a rare combination of formal cryptographic insight and hands-on experience shipping resilient CI and backend systems. Outside of work she is a science and space enthusiast who also crafts, reflecting a creative mindset that informs her problem-solving approach.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Photography, Photography at Fanshawe CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (4)
python10
testing10
unit-testing9
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/capirca
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Multi-platform ACL generation system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:56 commits, 26 PRs, 23 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Natalia primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the `capirca` project. They addressed issues related to testing and test execution, including fixing errors within the test suite and addressing problems with test arguments. The user refactored flag setups and fixed minor issues within the codebase, upping the capirca version number.
netmikonetwork-automationtraceroutemulti-platformnetwork-programming
cryptaliagy/golinks
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
A personal redirect service written in Rust
Contributions:67 commits, 40 PRs, 72 pushes in 2 years 8 months
rust
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