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Top SchoolTodd Jefferson is a seasoned software leader and hands-on engineer with over two decades of experience building reliable systems, most recently leading payments infrastructure at Shopify and now serving as Managing Director in finance. He specializes in payments, PKI, GraphQL, and cloud-native operations, and has a track record of designing scalable services used at planet scale. Comfortable coding across Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, and lower-level C/C++, Todd pairs deep technical chops with a passion for mentoring and clear technical communication. He has repeatedly moved between individual contribution and leadership roles, shipping production systems and developer tools from mobile CMS and deployment automation to large-scale payment services. Colleagues know him for picking up new technologies quickly and for enjoying the less glamorous but critical work of making code maintainable and teams more effective. Trained in computer science and mathematics at Waterloo, he blends rigorous problem-solving with pragmatic engineering.
7 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.Math Computer Science Mathematics, B.Math Computer Science Mathematics at University of Waterloo