Shon Verch
Software Engineer at Stripe
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShon Verch is a software engineer at Stripe focused on high-availability disaster recovery, bringing a decade of hands-on experience building reliable infrastructure and automation. A University of Toronto CS graduate, he blends industry impact—internships at Microsoft (where he built an LLM-driven merge conflict resolver and DevOps tooling) and IBM—with academic ML research that resulted in a NeurIPS 2024 paper on distributed temporal-difference learning. He moves fluidly between full-stack engineering, production DevOps, and research-grade deep RL, with a track record of cutting operational toil (automating repo syncs and reducing conflict volume) and improving user-facing performance at scale. Based in Toronto, he’s equally comfortable prototyping multi-agent systems and shipping production services, and he often focuses on making complex systems observable and automatable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Specialist, cGPA 3.80, Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Specialist, cGPA 3.80 at University of Toronto - Victoria University
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Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CSC207-UofT/course-project-circus
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
course-project-circus created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:1 review, 53 PRs, 187 pushes in 2 months
javascriptcircusgithub-classroom
GalacticGlum/GlumEngine2D
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 7 months
2d-gamegamedev2d-game-enginegame-developmentopengl
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