Shopify

About Shopify

The first Shopify store was our own

It did what it was supposed to, and it did it well. After seeing its success, we realized that we could provide this tool to others, and help them sell their products online. At Shopify we stand for simplicity, elegance, and common sense, and we hope to infuse those qualities in everything we do.

We are a team of highly dedicated individuals. We all share the passion for Shopify and commitment to excellence.

Tobi CEO

Tobias Lütke is CEO and co-founder of Shopify, the marquee shopping cart system of the e-commerce industry. As a programmer Tobi has served on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as the Typo weblog engine, Liquid and Active Merchant.

As an internationally invited speaker, Tobi spoke on diverse topics such as startups, crowd-sourcing, and large server cluster performance optimization. He maintains a popular tech weblog at too-biased.
Cody CTO
After finishing his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Cody found himself hooked on Ruby on Rails and living in Ottawa. Realizing that Tobi was also in Ottawa, Cody emailed him out of the blue to chat about Rails. The rest, they say, is history. When not soliciting strangers to talk about programming, Cody also enjoys snowboarding, climbing, biking, and traveling to new places. Cody is the author of RJS Templates for Rails, and the open source eBay API Library for Ruby.
Daniel VP of Design
Born and raised in Germany, Daniel decided to study computer science and music at the University of Dortmund. He discovered a new joy in programming after encountering Ruby. It is easy to get him excited about anything artsy, may it be advertising, photography or interface design. Daniel likes snowboarding, climbing, boardgames, coffee, sushi and weird music. He is a contributor to the open source community and also a published photographer.
Jeremy Director of Business Developement
Jeremy was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. After completing a 3-year Business Diploma in Business Sales from Loyalist College he went to work for Xerox as a major account manager responsible for developing, and managing large corporate, and federal accounts in the Ottawa region. Jeremy has been working in the software industry for the last 4 years in a business development, and relationship management capacity. Outside the office Jeremy is an avid golfer, and enjoys working out and having an active healthy lifestyle.