Shabnam Emdadi
Staff Engineer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShabnam Emdadi is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable platforms and product-focused systems, currently driving growth platform work for Shop at Shopify. She has a track record at high-growth companies including Peloton and Uber, where she led cross-functional efforts from metrics ingestion and emerging products to core driver and payments platforms. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and technical leadership roles, she has moved between individual contributor and manager positions, shaping architecture and delivery across backend, frontend, and data pipelines. With an academic background in economics and political science plus software training from Hackbright, she brings a strong analytical lens to product and performance tradeoffs. Notably, her career blends platform engineering depth with product-minded execution—helping teams turn complex data and metrics into reliable, customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Hackbright AcademyEconomics and Political Science, Economics and Political Science at Sciences PoB.A. Economics Political Science, B.A. Economics Political Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, French, Persian
Github Skills (27)
postgresql4
golang4
api3
aws-eventbridge3
scalr3
swagger2
cloudevents2
docker2
cli2
openapi2
aws2
go2
utm2
css1
rails1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shabemdadi/CrimeSF
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:77 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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