Rebecca Qu
Senior Software Engineer at GlossGenius
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Qu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, resilient checkout and e-commerce systems, now leading engineering efforts at GlossGenius. At Shopify she drove cross-team migrations from Datadog to Grafana, improved checkout performance to a p90 of 400ms, and architected a centralized geocoding service that handled 60M daily requests and unlocked nearly $30M in GMV. She specializes in observability, performance at scale, and hardening platforms against bots and edge cases, often coordinating large cross-functional audits and rollouts. Rebecca pairs product-minded engineering with operational rigor—writing E2E load tests, configuring Cloudflare logging, and instituting ownership practices to keep critical user flows reliable under peak load. Her background spans startups and large platforms, with a practical bent for cost-optimization and measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.) Humany Biology: Health & Disease and Animal Physiology, Honours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.) Humany Biology: Health & Disease and Animal Physiology at University of Toronto
Github Skills (10)
shopify9
airtable9
whiteboard8
cjs8
react-modal8
online-store8
ecommerce7
shopify-api7
javascript5
typescript4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rebeccaqu/Rhythm
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:74 commits, 69 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
RebeccaQu/rebeccaqu.github.io
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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