The person leading this crucial effort has been Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science and Engineering. Growing up in Iran and inspired by her father (university professor) and mother (statistician), Solmaz started her career in the world of bioinformatics, helping inform cancer research using deep learning (before deep learning became cool again!). A few roles later, Solmaz found her way into Shopify through a hackathon—in fact, she never even submitted a resume. Since then, she’s worked her way up through the company (starting as the first financial data analyst) and has grown the data science team from 20 to 200 people.
No one explains how she got from Iran to the US. She was probably bought here by a Computer company desperate for programming talent. And she grew with the company.
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