Shopify - A shop in minutes, a business for life.

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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.

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About the Team

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

Tobi
Cody
Daniel
Jeremy
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    Tobi
    CEO    		 Cody
    CTO    		 Daniel
    VP of Design    		 Jeremy
    Director of Business
    Development

  • 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 manger responsible for developing, and managing large corporate, and federal accounts in 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.

Our office

We are located in the very heart of Canada's capital Ottawa.

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Shopify's Data center

Shopify runs Debian Linux on reliable, high performance IBM eServer systems powered by AMD Opteron processors.

In June 2007 Shopify's data center moved from Fort Worth, Texas to its new high availability facilities in Toronto, Canada.
The Data Center at 151 Front Street serves as Canada's premier Carrier Hotel.

data center

151 Front Street

…is home to more than 150 telecommunications companies and is one of North America's most connected buildings with 9 unique fibre-optic networks, 25 diverse entrances, and more than 7,000 strands of fibre. Located next to the CN Tower the data center has access to the CN Railway network which carries one of the biggest Internet Backbones in North America.

(information from http://www.151frontstreet.com)