Qufei Chen
Staff Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolQufei Chen is a Staff Data Scientist at Shopify with a decade of experience building payment and fraud-detection ML systems for e-commerce. At Shopify they progressed from intern to technical lead, driving Shop Pay Installments (BNPL) and now leading Payments Platform Data Science, blending product-facing impact with platform-level stewardship. Comfortable across the stack, Qufei has shipped production models, led teams, and previously built backend tooling and prototypes at IBM, RBC, and the RCMP. A magna cum laude Computer Science graduate with data-science specialization and international study in Singapore, they combine rigorous academic grounding with pragmatic delivery in high-throughput payment environments. Notably, Qufei’s background spans both embedded/forensic tooling and large-scale retail payments, giving them an uncommon mix of low-level systems thinking and ML product expertise.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science - Specialization in Data Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science - Specialization in Data Science, Magna Cum Laude at University of OttawaSemester Abroad - January 2017, Computer Science, Semester Abroad - January 2017, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
qufeichen/qufeichen.github.io
Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:68 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
qufeichen/5Animals
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 month
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