Osama Sidat
Senior Production Engineer at Shopify
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolOsama Sidat is a Senior Production Engineer at Shopify with 13 years of software experience and a focus on backend infrastructure, scalability, and performance. He currently leads work on Shopify’s Caching Platform, building and optimizing caching libraries and infrastructure that support core services like the monolith and Storefront Renderer. Known for enjoying complex debugging and producing clean, maintainable solutions, he’s applied his skills to flash sales resilience, checkout robustness, and bot protection for merchants. Comfortable across Golang, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, he combines hands-on engineering with a systems-first mindset shaped by a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he’s approachable for mentorship and early-career conversations and prefers outreach that includes thoughtful company context.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate of GCE A Levels, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Further Mathematics, Graduate of GCE A Levels, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Further Mathematics at The City School PAF ChapterBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (38)
docker8
telemetry8
golang8
bower8
ecosystem7
go7
opentelemetry6
assemble6
angularjs6
memcached6
distributed-tracing6
moby6
ruby6
container6
javascript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oosidat/fluentd-elasticsearch-container
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
containersfluentddockerelasticsearchlogs
oosidat/babysteps_website
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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