Leaving Shopify

I decided to leave Shopify after almost a decade. It was hard to say goodbye, but I felt ready to take a break. Last Friday was my last day. I got to work on interesting problems at a scale I hadn’t imagined before joining. I got to do it with some of the smartest, kindest people I know. I’ll miss working with them. When I interviewed for the Online Store team 10 years ago, they’d just added drag-and-drop support for homepage sections in the editor. I went on to help migrate the editor to a React and GraphQL frontend and bring sections to all pages when we shipped Online Store 2.0 five years ago. I’m glad I got to wrap up my time there by helping ship Canvas last month. It’s a huge change from the editor I started working on - merchants can describe what they want to change and watch AI make the edits. As for what’s next, I’m not going to worry about that for the next 2-3 months. I’m spending some time in India, visiting family, traveling, and writing code for fun. The future can wait.

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