Peter Thesling
Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Thesling is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Toronto with a strong background in data science and machine learning, currently advancing platform and analytics work at Shopify after rising through engineering roles there since 2019. He brings roughly five years of professional engineering experience plus earlier ML engineering and research roles in Europe, combining hands-on system building with domain expertise in insurance and health care consulting. Trained in econometrics and economic research, he translates complex statistical methods into production-ready analytics and machine learning solutions that inform business decisions. Known for bridging business and technical teams, he’s comfortable running end-to-end data science projects—from economic evaluation and model development to deployment and stakeholder communication. An international profile (Canada PR, work in Germany and Netherlands, exchange study in New Zealand) gives him a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to problem solving.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Economic and Financial Research, Master of Science (MSc) Economic and Financial Research at Maastricht UniversityCourseraStanford OpenEdXExchange Semester Economics, Exchange Semester Economics at The University of Waikato
English, German, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
custom-widgets9
design-tokens9
vscode-extension9
workspace9
psych9
component-library9
react9
libyaml9
data-catalog8
cli8
figma-plugin8
typescript8
interface-builder8
shopify8
java7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peterthesling/whale
Nov 2020 - May 2021
🐳 The stupidly simple data discovery tool.
Contributions:4 PRs, 190 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
data-analysispythondatadataminingdata-discovery
peterthesling/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 pushes in 4 months
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