After Shopify
- 23%Joined a startup32
- 21%Joined a big company29
- 55%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Shopify most often go to Flexport, Meta and Amazon. Of them, 23% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 3m
Not Shopify's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 190 people on a map of 67,181, No. 124 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1900.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5127% of the people here
- Moved on
- 13973% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 9m to 2y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Deliverr. Most leave for Flexport (7% of recorded departures).
6%10Deliverr
2%4Amazon
2%3Apple
2%3Flagship2%3Meta
2%3Microsoft
Flexport107%Meta86%Amazon32%
AWS32%Microsoft32%
Salesforce32%Wealthsimple32%
2%3AppleAmazon32%AWS32%26 of 178 recorded arrivals shown, 152 more from 141 other companies33 of 140 recorded departures shown, 107 more to 94 other companies
How long people stay
35%<1y
33%1-2y
24%2-4y
7%4-7y
1%7y+
153 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0015
9816
91117
12918
11719
181020
431521
403122
63623
19824
21925
7<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 197 joined, 146 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 129 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer28
- Senior Software Engineer22
- Software Engineer Intern13
- Staff Software Engineer10
- Machine Learning Engineer9
- Software Developer8
- Backend Developer Intern7
- Software Development Intern6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 18%Exceptional or strong23 people
- 40%Solid52 people
- 36%Emerging46 people
- 6%Unproven8 people
129 of the 190 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
23 of the 129 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 18%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
26%Titles that rose36 of 136 classified people
- 26%Rose36 people
- 67%Stayed level91 people
- 7%Fell9 people
136 of the 190 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- University of Waterloo20.6%
- Georgia Tech6.4%
- University of Toronto5.3%
- Stanford3.7%
- Carleton University2.7%
- Carnegie Mellon2.7%
- UC Berkeley2.7%
- Cornell2.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 189 people here with a school on file.
39 of the 189 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 12 list Georgia Tech and 10 list University of Toronto. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
82 of the 190 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
43% of the people who have worked at Shopify and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Shopify
Everyone on the map
- 43%SF Bay Area81 · map 41%
- 28%New York54 · map 18%
- 7%Washington DC14 · map 13%
- 4%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 2%Chicago4 · map 0.6%
- 2%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 2%Pittsburgh4 · map 0.4%
- 12%Somewhere else22
All 190 people who worked at Shopify list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Shopify: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Shopify, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 190 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Shopify: 51 are there now, 139 have moved on.
- Most leave for Flexport: 10 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Deliverr: 10 people. Then Amazon and Apple.
- Median tenure at Shopify: 1y 3m, middle half 9m to 2y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Shopify, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 23% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 129 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 39 of the 189 people here with one on file (20.6%). Then Georgia Tech (12).
- 43% of the 190 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 43% of the 190 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 36 rose, 91 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 136 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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