Arian Taherzadeh
Software Engineer at Shopify, Ottawa
Experienced software engineer building payment systems at scale, turning ambiguous problems into shipped products across engineering, product, and business. Drawn to the hard problems of making AI work reliably in the real world.
Experience
Shopify
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Software Engineer
2024 – Present- Built payment and lending systems for Shopify Capital and Shopify Credit, the financing products behind $4.2B in merchant funding in 2025.
- Integrated with external banking and payments partners, translating regulatory and partner requirements into production systems.
- Partnered across engineering, product, risk, and finance to deliver reliable financial products to merchants in multiple countries.
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Software Engineer Intern, Dev Degree
2021 – 2024- Selected for Shopify's Dev Degree, a highly selective, fully sponsored work-integrated learning program that combines a Carleton CS degree with paid, full-time-equivalent engineering work at Shopify.
- Rotated through multiple engineering teams over 3 years, shipping production code on real product work while completing coursework, with mentorship and regular technical evaluations from senior engineers.
Education
Carleton University
2021 – 2024Bachelor of Computer Science Honours, Minor in Law