Summary
Nicholas Lewanowicz is a Web Lead and Senior Web Developer with a decade of experience building scalable merchant-facing products at Shopify, currently driving the Shopify Capital team with Golang, TypeScript and React. He blends hands-on engineering—especially single-page apps in Ember.js and React—with people leadership, onboarding and mentoring new engineers to accelerate delivery. Nicholas has helped scale lending systems that underwrite billions in funding and led cross-border rollouts and a major Rails-to-React refactor to improve performance and UX. His background in data visualization and analytics (Ciena, Accedian) informs a pragmatic approach to surfacing complex data for non-technical users. Early entrepreneurial and community work running a high-revenue online platform and producing widely viewed content gives him a knack for growth, product thinking, and clear technical communication. Based in Ottawa, he’s ambitious about tackling new problems and translating them into reliable, user-friendly systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Honours, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Honours at Carleton University