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Farhan Thawar
Shopify
@fnthawar
FOLLOWS YOU. VP & Head of Eng @Shopify - Helpful (Acquired), Pivotal, Xtreme (Acquired), Microsoft, Trilogy, Waterloo. Everything you know is wrong! 🇨🇦/acc
Toronto, Ontario
Born March 17
Joined April 2008
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    Farhan Thawar
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    Jun 4, 2025
    I'm seeing a concerning trend in talking to CTOs/CEOs about the cost of tokens i.e. Can I afford an extra $1-10k/month per engineer as they use @cursor_ai / @windsurf_ai / @GitHubCopilot etc? So they clamp down on spending 😬 1. Do not use the default / cheapest models. Yes
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
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    Feb 10, 2021
    Read non-fiction to raise your floor. Read fiction to raise your ceiling.
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Aug 17, 2021
    Tuesday vibes
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Oct 12, 2021
    One of my favourite visuals
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Oct 26, 2021
    If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone — @naval
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Jan 29, 2020
    Excited to share that React Native is the Future of Mobile at @Shopify😎 engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineer… - Our in production @reactnative apps have 95%+ code shared between iOS and Android 🤯 - We're hiring native mobile and web developers @ShopifyEng - We're contributing back to OSS👊🏽
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Sep 10, 2021
    Yup
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Oct 22, 2021
    Yup @Shopify is rolling out all new M1 Pro’s to employees and you can keep your old laptop for yourself Act like an owner 👊🏽
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    Swati
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    Oct 22, 2021
    Step 1. Someone mentions how it'd be lovely to have M1 Mac as our new work laptops in our developers slack channel. Step 2. SEVEN minutes later, there is an email in our inbox. Not only are we getting M1s, but we can keep our existing Macs because why not do the simple thing?
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Apr 30, 2021
    Shopify.com/careers
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    Balaji
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    Apr 29, 2021
    Many founders aren’t hiring from Harvard. They’re hiring from Twitter.
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Jul 10, 2025
    I meet a lot of CEOs who are taking over an existing engineering team and are trying to answer a seemingly simple question "How do I measure the effectiveness of my engineering team?" My answer: WEEKLY DEMOS There are lots of activity metrics that can be useful to track, but
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
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    Jan 22, 2020
    🤯 @Shopify received 7,000 applicants for 100 intern spots this summer across UX, Product, Engineering I 💚💚💚 interns (🔑 many become full-times!) Smart capable folks, bringing energy and new ideas to work Don't give them *intern* projects 🙅🏽‍♂️, given them real work 🚀
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Nov 22, 2021
    You’re not competing with those who can (a lot of people), but those who do (very few) — @shl
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Jul 6, 2021
    My first job was a paper route 📰, but it's never too early to start your own business Sign your 9-12yr kids up for a free Business Starter Kit from @Shopify with activities and and exercises to help design their first biz shopify.ca/kids #ShopifyKids
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    Farhan Thawar
    Shopify
    @fnthawar
    Sep 17, 2016
    Memo from TJ Watson, Jr @IBM wondering how they lost super-computing leadership to 34 people "including the janitor"