Randy Abson
Founder Building at Tourlu
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRandy Abson is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over 20 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and high-scale mobile experiences. Most recently he led engineering for Shopify’s Shop app, balancing hands-on architectural contributions with cross-functional strategy to drive engagement and GMV growth, and now is solo‑building Tourlu, an AI tour guide that went from idea to production-ready SaaS in three months. His background spans production engineering, platform tooling for thousands of teams, and enterprise multi-tenant SaaS—skills he uses to improve reliability, developer velocity, and product-driven outcomes. Known as a player-coach, he mentors engineering leaders while still diving into code and architecture, and prefers solving systemic problems that scale rather than ad hoc fixes. Based in Ottawa, he combines product sensibility with operational rigor to turn complex technical challenges into pragmatic, customer-facing solutions.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Information Systems at Carleton University
Github Skills (26)
hotel-booking9
polaris9
spree8
shopify8
ruby7
rails7
conversations5
slack5
github-app5
task-management5
ufo3
variable-fonts3
rendering3
cjk3
slack-integration3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Shopify/shopify_app
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
A Rails Engine for building Shopify Apps
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
railsrails-enginehotel-bookingshopify-appsruby
Shopify/smart_todo
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Enhance TODO comment in your Ruby code
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
task-managementrubyslackenhancetodo
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