Sybil Deboin
Engineering Manager at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSybil Deboin is an engineering manager and senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling startups into acquisitions, currently leading teams at Shopify from Montreal. She specializes in Ruby and Rails, domain-driven design, testable architectures and high-performance payment and pricing systems, having designed the DDD architecture and led the backend that helped Chronogolf reach a $30M+ exit. Her background spans NLP and AI-driven products—implementing message classification and conversational workflows with Python and NLTK—plus hands-on DevOps and DB optimizations. Known for shaping cross-functional processes (product, support, sales) and mentoring seasoned engineers, she blends pragmatic delivery with long-term architectural thinking. Outside engineering she pursues permaculture and alpinism, reflecting a systems-minded curiosity and resilience.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Université de MontpellierEngineer’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'EntrepriseMaster's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master at Université Paris-Saclay
English, French
Github Skills (6)
lightspeed10
api-client8
pathofexile8
poe7
api7
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sybil/PlayBotWeb
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 39 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Sybil/PlayBotAPI
Sep 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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