Rune Madsen
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Retail at Shopify
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRune Madsen is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of hands-on software experience and seven years in management, currently leading three teams in Retail Foundations at Shopify focused on POS infrastructure, extensibility, and a shared design system. He has deep iOS and mobile expertise—contributing to Shopify’s Mobile Buy SDK, Apple Pay integrations, and notable open-source UI components like RMSwipeTableViewCell and demo improvements to ios-fontawesome. Rune has driven major product redesigns and performance wins at consumer apps (HotelTonight) and worked on high-profile Apple projects such as Find My Friends notification extensions featured at WWDC. He combines product-minded engineering with operational leadership, having acted as product manager during resourcing constraints and reduced build times through tooling changes. Based in San Francisco, he brings a pragmatic blend of mobile-first craftsmanship and platform-level coordination that scales 1P and 3P experiences for merchants. Colleagues rely on him to bridge UX, backend integrations, and engineering process to deliver reliable, merchant-facing systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rosedale Heights Secondary SchoolBA in Marketing and Management Communication Marketing Management Communications PR Advertising Org. Behaviour Semiotics etc., BA in Marketing and Management Communication Marketing Management Communications PR Advertising Org. Behaviour Semiotics etc. at Aarhus School of Business, University of AarhusElectives Marketing Management, Electives Marketing Management at Toronto Metropolitan UniversityHigher Commercial Examination (HHx) Business Language English Mathematics Media, Higher Commercial Examination (HHx) Business Language English Mathematics Media at Tietgen Business College
English, Danish
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Github Skills (25)
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ui-design10
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font-awesome10
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searchbox9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/mobile-buy-sdk-ios
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Shopify’s Mobile Buy SDK makes it simple to sell physical products inside your mobile app. With a few lines of code, you can connect your app with the Shopify platform and let your users buy your products using Apple Pay or their credit card.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 releases, 1098 commits, 75 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rune primarily contributed to the iOS Mobile Buy SDK, focusing on integrating Apple Pay functionality within the sample applications. Their work involved prefetching shop objects, utilizing shop currency and country codes, handling checkout completion, and updating the UI/UX for the product view. The user also addressed issues related to shipping rates and made improvements to the codebase by using layout guides for insets.
apple-paymobilemobile-applicationshopify
alexdrone/ios-fontawesome
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
NSString+FontAwesome
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Rune primarily focused on enhancing the UI of the iOS FontAwesome library's demo application. Their work included adding a table view to list all available icons, along with a search function for efficient navigation. They also incorporated the missing "suitcase" icon and set up a tab bar controller to improve the demo's overall structure and user experience.
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