# Farhan Thawar

Najpopularniejsze odcinki podcastów
Zaktualizowano:

Episode 045 - Patrick Pierre

Hosts Karl and Taylor are joined by Patrick Pierre, who shares his transformative journey from being a pharmacy major to becoming a successful Shopify developer and YouTuber. Patrick touches on the challenges and insights he gained while transitioning into the tech world, the importance of leveragi…

Build Infrastructure, Not Features: Farhan Thawar (Shopify)

Shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar reveals how to build and scale high-performance engineering teams in the age of AI. Drawing from his experience managing over 1,000 engineers remotely, Farhan shares Shopify's unique approach to weekly demos over burndown charts, their controversial decision …

Q&A: No One Understands Your Demo? Here's WHY | TDD Isn't Just for CODE — Use It Everywhere!

If you've ever wondered how to make test-driven development more than a coding technique, this episode is for you. Ashok Sivanand and producer Doug Branson answer listener and Reddit-sourced questions about building better product teams—covering everything from mindset shifts to hard truths about p…

How Shopify Stays on the Bleeding Edge: AI, Culture, and Operating Like You'll Be Relevant in 20 Years (with Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar)

In this episode of Convergence.fm, Ashok Sivanand sits down with Farhan Thawar, Head of Engineering at Shopify, to go behind the scenes of how Shopify not only keeps pace with rapid change but leads it. The discussion explores how Shopify became one of the first platforms to allow merchants to se…

Black Friday Gigastream with Shopify | Harley Finkelstein, Noel Mack, Sara Foster, Sean Frank, Kat Cole, Peter Rahal, Farhan Thawar, Torin Herndon, Kevin Harwood, Nish Samantray, Bené Eaton, Brian Keller

(06:32) - Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify, helping lead the company’s global commerce strategy and long-term vision. He works closely with founders, brands, and entrepreneurs building businesses on the platform. Harley is also a prominent voice on entrepreneurship and the future of…

Farhan Thawar (Shopify) | Building at Scale: AI, Infrastructure, and the Future of Tech

Join Mantle's Amar Varma for an incredible conversation with Farhan Thawar, a tech veteran who's been at the forefront of every major wave of innovation over the past three decades. From early days at Waterloo to leading engineering at Shopify, Farhan shares hard-won insights on building world-clas…

Episode 5: The complex pixels of commerce (with Shopify's Farhan Thawar)

In Episode 5, we move from pixels and intelligence into the moment money changes hands, following the full flow from landing on a storefront through everything that happens after you decide to buy. With my friend, Shopify’s Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, we trace the path from storefront to ca…

Small Models, Massive Wins: The New Shopify AI Formula

Shopify's distillation pipeline cuts production AI costs by up to 30x — and in some cases, the smaller model outperforms the frontier model on the narrow task. That's not a trade-off. That's a win on accuracy, latency, and cost simultaneously. Farhan Thawar, VP & Head of Engineering at Shopify, ru…

Toronto Tech Week and the New Era of Canadian Startup Ambition

In this special episode of Tank Talks, Matt Cohen brings listeners inside Toronto Tech Week with a live podcast studio recorded at the Toronto Homecoming event. This episode captures a fast-moving snapshot of the Canadian tech ecosystem through candid conversations with Boris Wertz of Version One, …

How Shopify's Head of Engineering Thinks About His Job And AI - Farhan Thawer

Shopify's VP & Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar joins StartWell to unpack Sidekick, why Shopify builds its own tools instead of buying them, and how a 7,000-person hackathon and 1,000 annual interns keep the culture moving.