Summary
Glen Nkali is an engineering leader and founder with seven years of experience building e-commerce and logistics platforms, currently co-founding Parsel to create modern delivery infrastructure. He led multiple engineering teams at Shopify—rewriting the fulfillment platform and launching new GraphQL/REST APIs, shipping local delivery support in under five weeks at the start of COVID, and delivering a 0→1 self-serve freight portal. Glen is fluent in API design (REST and GraphQL) and system design across monoliths and microservices, pairing hands-on engineering with coaching to build high-performing teams. He balances startup speed with enterprise performance trade-offs, and, less obviously, brings low-level systems experience from Layer‑0 photonics provisioning and real-time WebSocket mapping work. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in Software Engineering from the University of Ottawa and is based in Ottawa, Canada.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer and Networks, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer and Networks at National Advanced School of Posts and Telecommunications
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at University of Ottawa
English, French