Parsa Hemmati
Backend Software Engineer at Self-employed
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolParsa Hemmati is a backend software engineer at Shopify with a year of hands-on experience progressing from intern to full-time contributor on scalable backend systems. He pairs technical execution with a product-minded background—having co-founded startups, led early product teams, and served as a technical account manager who translated customer pain into product improvements. Based in Old Toronto, Parsa brings an entrepreneurial lens to engineering, informed by UX design training and a history of freelance cinematography that sharpens his attention to detail and storytelling. Comfortable operating at the intersection of customer-facing roles and backend development, he excels at shipping pragmatic solutions that address real user needs. His trajectory shows a pattern of rapid learning and impact across startups and high-growth product teams.
1 year of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certification Computer Software Engineering, Certification Computer Software Engineering at The App BreweryUX Research/Design Certificate, UX Research/Design Certificate at BrainStationToronto Metropolitan University
English, Persian
Github Skills (3)
shopify8
online-store7
ecommerce6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
patricksilva-yu/DIGT11302Project
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 27 days
Shopify/dawn
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
online-storeecommerceperformancebuilt-inshopify
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