Mazen Al-Hagri

Software Engineer

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1 yr 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

14+ years of experience in software engineering.
Co-developed a mobile app with over 20 million downloads.
Established HPC center at a major Saudi university.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in scalable web development and high-performance computing.

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CComputer GraphicsDistributed SystemsHigh Performance Computing (HPC)JavaScriptLegacy SystemsLinuxMySQLNoSQLPython (Programming Language)REST APIsScientific ComputingSoftware DevelopmentVue.jsWeb Development

About

A results-oriented, conception-to-production senior staff software engineer, currently obsessed with driving value to more than 2 million merchants at one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, Shopify. I have 14+ years of experience implementing business-oriented solutions in different programming languages (mainly C++, Java, Python and now Ruby); leveraging my breadth knowledge of various technologies; with focus on highly-scalable service-oriented web development, distributed programming and information security. I have 2 years of successful team-leading experience, overseeing the best engineering practices of writing scalable, optimized, monitored, traceable, documented and thoroughly-tested systems. Before joining Shopify, and prior to that Booking.com, I made a successful record of achievements, where I was granted one patent in the USPTO, co-developed a mobile application that attained over 20 million downloads, established the HPC center at one of Saudi Arabia’s largest public universities, and was a top-class performer during my MS and BS studies.

Experience

Shopify

3 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Staff Developer

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Senior Developer

Mar 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Obsessed with delivering value to the merchants in one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world

Booking.com

2 roles

Developer and Team Lead (Interim)

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos

Leading the team tasked with securing the userbase of the world's largest accommodations website against malicious attacks

Developer

Nov 2019 – Jul 2020 · 8 mos

Securing the userbase of the world's largest accommodations website against malicious attacks

Bright computing (acquired by nvidia)

Software Developer

Mar 2019 – Nov 2019 · 8 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Building Bright Cluster Management software for deploying and managing high-performance (HPC) clusters, Kubernetes clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in on-prem data centers as well as in the public cloud.

Imam abdulrahman bin faisal university

Team Lead (HPC)

Oct 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Al-Dammam Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Leading the team tasked with establishing the Scientific and High Performance Computing center at the university, which includes deploying the first HPC cluster in the university using bare-bone fabric-connected hardware, and then supporting faculty members and researchers at the university to realize their scientific projects in many fields.

Saudi aramco

Systems Analyst (HPC)

Sep 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Extending, optimizing, issue-fixing and supporting the world’s first billion-cell and
largest reservoir simulator, GigaPOWERS, owned by Saudi Aramco, designed to run in
parallel on a 150,000 cores (7,000 nodes) cluster.

Futures business development

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2012 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Jeddah Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Architect and software engineer for large-scale and performance-critical web services software, running as backend for a social networking service (patent pending) with multiple frontends, designed to serve millions of users.