Donald Merand
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Merand is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling software and teams, currently shaping engineering at Shopify after progressing from Senior Developer. He excels as a breadth-first generalist, comfortable designing architectures, shipping production systems, and mentoring teams while also pursuing creative pursuits like composing music and luthiery. Donald spent a decade leading engineering and IT at EXPLO, where he evolved from coordinator roles into Director of IT and Chief Software Engineer, giving him deep operational and institutional knowledge. Based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, he pairs a BA in Computer Science from Macalester with unconventional training in flamenco guitar and luthiery, which informs a hands-on, craft-oriented approach to engineering. Known for balancing pragmatic delivery with creative problem-solving, he brings rare cross-disciplinary perspective to product and infrastructure challenges.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Flamenco Guitar, Luthiery, Spanish, Flamenco Guitar, Luthiery, Spanish at School for International TrainingBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Macalester College
Github Skills (41)
sorbet10
shopify10
oclif10
typescript10
ruby10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
cli10
shell8
bash8
typechecker8
markov-chain7
atom-feed7
react-component7
hot-module-replacement7
frontend7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dmerand/donald.merand.org
Jan 2015 - Jun 2026
Donald L. Merand
Contributions:56 pushes in 11 years 6 months
exploration/faces-of-explo
Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 1 year 3 months
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