Rahil Virani
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRahil Virani is a hands-on Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience who blends product instincts and engineering leadership to ship customer-focused systems at scale. Currently building payments and checkout at Shopify, he has founded and led multiple startups and skunkworks teams, guiding product vision while still writing production code. His technical breadth spans backend and frontend stacks—Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, JavaScript, PHP and lower-level languages—combined with deep system architecture and delivery experience. Notably, he shipped one of the first browser-based 3D cricket games that reached 15 million monthly active users, demonstrating a rare mix of product-market intuition and performance-driven engineering. Based in Toronto, he thrives at the intersection of entrepreneurship and technical execution, turning early ideas into resilient, user-focused platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Github Skills (14)
rails10
spree10
payment10
webpack-loader6
css5
webpack4
shopify-app3
monitoring3
ruby3
database3
css-loader3
rails-engines3
performance-monitoring2
apm2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
influitivemoonshots/teardown
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 223 pushes, 18 branches in 5 months
ecommerce-integrations/shopify_payment_icons
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
An easy to use library that allows you to manage and access payment icons
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
paymenticonspayment-icons
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