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Shopify executive responsible for the technology strategy, infrastructure, and platform that powers the tools and services that entrepreneurs need to start and scale their businesses around the world. Grew the engineering team from 50 to 3,000 and the infrastructure from handling a peak of 800k RPM to over 50m RPM and around 10% of the planet's e-commerce traffic. The uptime improved from three nines to four nines as we scaled the platform worldwide.

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Executive responsible for the engineering and design teams. Grew R&D from 100 to 500+ over four years. During that time, we increased the development velocity, opened two new dev offices, shipped simultaneously to the cloud and on-prem, simplified our products, released more products, and built a kick-ass app marketplace and platform.It was hard and challenging, but one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. It was terribly hard to leave, and I'll enjoy watching Atlassian keep crushing it over the next 10 years.

Led a team of 150 people worldwide building a new collaborative development platform and product. See https://jazz.net/blog/index.php/author/jlemieux/

The timing wasn't great, but the ideas were. Led the team building a replacement for Subversion and ClearCase. See https://jazz.net/library/article/525

On the founding team at Eclipse and a committer on the platform for the 1.0 to 3.2 releases.Co-authored the reference guide to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform in 2005.

Great company that was pushing the boundaries of developer tools. Spent time on the source control and services teams before being acquired by Rational Software.

Built a real-time telephone monitoring platform and became an expert in the SS7 protocol. The platform was used for fraud detection and quality of service analytics.