Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary E-Commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants.
Shopify has two segments: subscription solutions (43% of fiscal 2018 revenue) and merchant solutions (57% of fiscal 2018 revenue). The subscription solutions segment allows Shopify merchants to conduct e-commerce on a variety of platforms, including the company's website, physical stores, pop-up stores, kiosks, social networks, and Amazon. Merchant solutions are add-on products for the platform that facilitate e-commerce and include Shopify Pay, Shopify Shipping, and Shopify Capital.
Shopify has said their platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of varying sizes.The company reported that it had more than 1,000,000 businesses, including brands such as Tesla, Red Bull, Nestle, GE and Kylie Cosmetics, in approximately 175 countries using its platform as of June 2019. They reported total gross merchandise volume exceeding $41.1 billion for the calendar year 2018.
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Aaron Brady
Senior Production Engineer
Alaine Mackenzie
Senior Content Strategy Lead
Alex Topalov
Lead Developer
Amy Shapero
Chief Financial Officer
Andre Lyver
Director of Engineering
Andy Kwiatkowskiv
Senior Production Engineer
Anna Lambert
Director of Talent Acquisition
Arati Sharma
Director, Marketing
Atlee Clark
Director of Applications
Ben Morris
Developer Lead
Bonnie D'Amico
Senior Lead, Affiliates
Bram Sugarman
Director of Corporate Development and Strategic Partnerships
Brandon Chu
General Manager and Director of Product
Brittany Forsyth
Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Casandra Campbell
Content Marketing Lead
Cassie Kaiser
User Experience Research Lead
Chris Sauve
Front-End Developer Technical Lead
Craig Miller
CPO
Cynthia Savard Saucier
Director of User Experience
Daniel Molnar
Data Engineer
Daniel Patricio
Senior Product Manager
Daniel Weinand
Founder
Daniella Niyonkuru
Production Engineer
Dario Mungoi
Senior Android Developer
David Stubbs
Senior Product Designer