Hazel Clark

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Senior Backend Engineer at Shopify · Django, Redis

Shopify
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
7+ years experience
Rotman School of Management
English
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Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 5 at Shopify, where I work on the public API team. Moved 73% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Built the experimentation framework 11 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with Django and Redis. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Mentors who have done this before
  • Working sessions on Redis
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on Django decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

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Skills
DjangoRESTPostgreSQLRedis
LearningLearning something
closes in 4 months

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Goal
Build a portfolio project in API platforms that I'd be proud to show.
Where I am now
Some experience
Ideal mentor
Someone who has worked in API platforms for a few years
Cadence
Every two weeks
What I can offer back
Introductions in my college network

7 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Toronto, ON · remote OKdjangoredispostgresql
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Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Shopify · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Shipped 13 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the REST service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 59 services to PostgreSQL.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
    Accenture · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 34 a week to 4.

Projects

Write-up: API platforms in practice
2025

A long-form guide to API platforms for people starting out.

Open-source REST toolkit
2022

A small library for API platforms that 425 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Rotman School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. OCAD University
    BDes, Electronics and Communication
    2014 - 2018

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