Jake Chambers — Software Engineer

About

Senior software engineer with 5+ years building scalable products. Currently building Shop Pay at Shopify. Also founding engineer at Wisesheets, building investor-focused tools for tens of thousands of users. Previous experience includes engineering leadership and full-stack development across fintech and AI platforms.

Love to problem solve
High attention to detail
Create things I'm proud of
Learn something every day

Experience

Shopify

Toronto, ON

2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Building Shop Pay, Shopify's payment solution used by millions
Working on scalable payment infrastructure and checkout experiences

Ada

Toronto, ON

2023 - 2024

Senior Software Engineer → Engineering Manager

Managed cross-functional team of 4 engineers and 2 ML researchers
Led transition to reliable generative AI product
Delivered on strategic roadmaps aligned with organizational goals

Wisesheets

Toronto, ON

2021 - Present

Founding Engineer (Part-time)

Built investor-focused tools for Excel and Google Sheets
Scaled infrastructure to handle ~100 requests per second
Serving tens of thousands of active users

Certn

Victoria, BC

2021 - 2023

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

Led "Speed Up Certn" initiative achieving 6x improvement in page load times
Developed biometric identity verification reducing manual workload by 15%
Redesigned core background check processing system

CPPIB

Toronto, ON

2019 - 2021

Software Engineer

Implemented company-wide features for investment operations
Maintained mission-critical Java applications
Collaborated directly with investors on complex requirements

Projects

Liferoll

Co-Founder 2021

Co-founded a product that innovates on the concept of a story by making it more vivid, effortless to create, and private by default. Today, people use Liferoll to curate quotes, build memories in groups, and achieve goals with friends.

liferoll.co →

Wisesheets

Co-Founder

Co-founded a product that optimizes common day-to-day investor workflows. Solutions cut the time investors spend gathering data for financial analysis. Available for Google Sheets and Excel.

wisesheets.io →

eMotionaL

Award: Most Innovative

Fourth year capstone project that predicts human emotion through vocal input using machine learning (Keras & Tensorflow). Achieved ~80% accuracy using a convolutional neural network.

Dolphin.io

Award: Best API Use

Hack Western 5 winner. Send money to peers without data or WiFi - transactions are sent over sound, received on peer's device, and processed once connected to internet.

HowMuch

Built a tool to calculate historical stock returns. Answers "what would my investment be worth today if I invested at this past date?" No similar tool existed online.

AWS 2.0

Cloud computing platform demonstration with Azure deployments. Users can create virtual machines, monitor usage, and change VM configurations across public and private networks.