Pierre Jambet
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPierre Jambet is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience building backend systems, primarily in Rails and Scala, and additional expertise in Python/Django. He has helped launch large-scale services at AWS (notably contributing to the initial design and preview release of AWS Proton) and now drives platform work at Shopify. Pierre excels at designing robust payment, fulfillment, and integration services from his time at Harry’s and Transfix, blending pragmatic engineering with thoughtful architecture. He is an active tinkerer and educator—authoring a free online book that reimplements Redis in Ruby—reflecting a deep curiosity about systems internals beyond day-to-day product work. Known for shipping reliable services at both startups and cloud-scale companies, he brings a mix of hands-on coding and system design to complex backend problems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology & Media Engineering, Master's degree Information Technology & Media Engineering at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesMaster's degree Computer Science & Management, Master's degree Computer Science & Management at Polytech Montpellier
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (199)
in-memory-database10
authentication10
mvc10
bigtable10
ruby10
activerecord10
cpp10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
nosql10
fibers10
data-model10
background-service10
html10
database10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
harrystech/kontrast
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 49 pushes in 7 months
web-applicationsintegration-flowcontinuouscontinuous-integrationmonitoring
pboling/seed_migration
Mar 2014 - Dec 2017
Seed Migration
Contributions:2 releases, 101 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 8 months
seedmigration
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