Shanth Sathiyaseelan
Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShanth Sathiyaseelan is a Staff Production Engineer based in Ottawa with six years of experience designing and operating large-scale production systems at Shopify. He progressed rapidly through multiple production engineering roles at Shopify since 2019, demonstrating deep operational ownership and an ability to evolve platform reliability practices at scale. Earlier technical roles at Apple and in mechanical engineering give him a unique hardware-aware perspective when troubleshooting complex systems and optimizing cross-disciplinary workflows. Known for bridging hands-on incident response with longer-term architectural improvements, he focuses on making services observable, resilient, and easy for teams to operate. He brings an engineer’s rigor from a University of Waterloo mechanical engineering background and a pragmatic, systems-first mindset that surfaces subtle operational risks before they become outages.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (17)
mysql10
clustering10
horizontal-scaling9
kubernetes9
database-server9
vitess9
database9
database-cluster9
memcached8
ruby8
resiliency6
circuit-breaker6
proxy5
percona4
libmemcached2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/percona-server
Apr 2025 - Sep 2025
Percona Server
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
percona
Shopify/rocksdb
May 2025 - Jul 2025
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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