Andrew Zulaybar
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Hi, I'm Andrew! 👋
I am a product-focused software engineer with 4+ years…
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Andrew Zulaybar posted thisIt was a great ride, Shopify! 🚀 Yesterday, I received the news that it would be my last day of work. I was, unfortunately, also impacted by the 20% layoffs. I want to take this time to thank everyone who has been a part of my journey. Since first joining as an intern in 2021, every person I’ve interacted with has proven that Shopify recruits overall incredible people. I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such supportive, knowledgeable, and talented coworkers. I was challenged to grow each day, both professionally and personally, and I couldn't have imagined a better place to start my career. It was truly a pleasure to get shit done with you all. To all ex-Shopifolk who are now in the same position, please let me know if there’s any support I can offer with referrals, recommendations, or just someone to talk to – looks like I have a lot more free time on my schedule now! As for my plan moving forward: I’ll be taking a short break to reset, but I’ll soon be back on the lookout for new opportunities. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to reach out if you know of any open positions in front-end or full-stack development. I'd love to chat 😄 #shopify #layoffs #opentowork
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Andrew Zulaybar reacted on thisAndrew Zulaybar reacted on thisToday we're launching Rippling Data Cloud, and with it, Rippling AI can now answer questions across any system you run your business on, not just the data that lives in Rippling. Pull in data from your CRM, POS, helpdesk system, or any other tool you use. You can answer questions like: 🤔 “Which engineering teams are spending the most on AI tools and have the least output to show for it?” ⏱️ “Which support managers have the fastest resolution times in customer tickets?” 📊 “Show me labor cost as a percent of sales across my stores and flag any stores that are understaffed.” Data Cloud is the modern data stack, built into Rippling, with your org chart and permissions baked in and AI as the front door, so you can get the insight you need in minutes. ➡️ Read the announcement: https://lnkd.in/efQEKKFS
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Andrew Zulaybar reacted on thisVery proud of this launch! We've been grinding through the hard parts: search, context, latency, all the details that make it feel like it knows you. It’s still early. Lots of stuff cooking and it's only going to get better from here!Andrew Zulaybar reacted on thisIncredibly excited to share some of what we've been building at Shopify - Shop Agent is a frontier-level agentic shopping assistant that learns about you, who you shop for, and becomes more personalized the more you use it. Come help us build it! I'm #hiring for Machine Learning Engineering and Management roles to help us build the next generation of Agentic Commerce. #Shopify #MachineLearningHiring #AgenticCommerce
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Andrew Zulaybar reacted on thisAndrew Zulaybar reacted on thisI’m the first person in my family to graduate from high school. The first to earn a bachelor's degree. And soon, I’ll be the first to enter a Master’s program. I’m excited to announce that I will be returning to the University of Washington School of Public Health to pursue a Master’s degree in Environmental Health Sciences. Coming from a family of farmworkers, my pursuit of education has always been rooted in serving my community and building a career supporting workers in high-risk industries. Thank you to my friends, family, and all my mentors for their immense support. I couldn’t have achieved this milestone without you. I look forward to these next steps in my career and education! #firstgen #publichealth
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Andrew Zulaybar reacted on thisAndrew Zulaybar reacted on thisI’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as a Software Developer at 1Password! 🚀
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Andrew Zulaybar liked thisAndrew Zulaybar liked thisI think we have lost some sense of judgment and moderation when it comes to product building currently. The moment you turn something into a universally celebrated metric, whether that is token burn, prototype count, or percentage of agent-written code, you start losing sight of what actually matters. I have felt the same way for a long time about overusing data and A/B testing to build products. The moment you reduce product quality or productivity to a metric, you stop shipping value and start shipping numbers. A lot of what people are doing with AI makes directional sense. The missing piece is counterbalance: 1. AI should help engineers build better products. Leaderboards and adoption metrics can be useful as directional signals. They do not tell you what is being built, whether it is good, or whether it should exist at all. 2. Users do not care what percentage of your code was written by agents. They care about the outcome. Faster output is useful. Like usually, faster doesn't seem to add to quality, clarity, or stability of products. Power to build should not become an excuse to lower quality bars. 3. LLM-generated prototypes can feel like late-night whiteboarding sessions. They look exciting in the moment and feel productive very quickly. Then a few days later you realize the idea was shallow, distracting, or simply wrong. The same trap shows up in jumping straight to code and solutions more broadly. You may just be building the wrong thing more efficiently. Prototyping has its place. So do clear thinking, good design, and a real understanding of the user’s problem. In terms of activities or momentum, the main quest and the side quest can both feel productive but only one actually moves the mission forward. 4. Adding more to products is still dangerous as ever even if time or effort to add it has gone down. Every addition creates complexity, maintenance cost, and user confusion. New features should be pushed back unless they clearly show it should exist and how it improves the product. 5. Not everything needs to be an agent shaped. A simple scheduled task does not need a full LLM sandbox. Making something agentic because it feels current or impressive does not make it right-sized, correct, or effective. The core ideas are: - even if you can, maybe you should not. - more power we have to build should not reduce our need to think, it should increase it.
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Andrew Zulaybar liked thisAndrew Zulaybar liked thisI’m happy to share that I’m a boomerang Back at Plusgrade as a Senior FED!
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Andrew Zulaybar reacted on thisAndrew Zulaybar reacted on thisLast week, I was part of the cohort of 40% fellow colleagues laid off from Block. Over the last two years, I got to design Square's connected devices ecosystem, and be part of one of the most talented POS design teams I've ever worked alongside. I'm so grateful to have rolled up my sleeves alongside my kind, empathetic, and fiercely intelligent teammates. You are all truly one of a kind. We made a real impact together on the local communities of sellers we served, and that's something I'll always be proud of. Thanks to AK Matthews and Monet Spells for taking a chance on me at the start of my journey here, and to Tyler Doyle, Jason Eilts, and the entire mobile team for making the connected hardware work an absolute blast. To everyone who has been part of my Square journey, thank you. ❤️ I'm excited to see where the next chapter leads. If you know of any opportunities in product design in NYC (or remote), or just want to catch up, don't be a stranger! #OpenToWork #ProductDesign #UXDesign
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Education
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The University of British Columbia
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Activities and Societies: UBC Science Co-op, UBC Launch Pad, UBC Emerging Media Lab, Imagine UBC Faculty of Science Orientation Leader, Science Undergraduate Society, UBC Recreation Volleyball & Ultimate Intramurals
Graduated with Distinction and Co-operative Education Program designation.
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Volunteer Experience
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Technical Lead
UBC Launch Pad
- 1 year
UBC Launch Pad is a student-run software engineering team devoted to building software projects in a collaborative and professional environment. We form teams based on common interests and project ideas of our own choosing, and hack on our projects to completion.
Sep 2020 – Apr 2021:
• Directed a team of 6 full-stack developers and 2 UX designers in building a web application for promoting restaurant discounts by leading weekly agile sprint meetings, prioritizing feature work, and…UBC Launch Pad is a student-run software engineering team devoted to building software projects in a collaborative and professional environment. We form teams based on common interests and project ideas of our own choosing, and hack on our projects to completion.
Sep 2020 – Apr 2021:
• Directed a team of 6 full-stack developers and 2 UX designers in building a web application for promoting restaurant discounts by leading weekly agile sprint meetings, prioritizing feature work, and delegating tasks.
• Provided 1:1 career mentorship with members by creating and executing personalized growth plans.
• Defined architectural design of external communication of the application with AWS services and APIs.
• Implemented UI components, data fetching services, and state management with React and TypeScript.
May 2020 – Aug 2020:
• Create documentation for technical processes and conduct technical interviews.
Github:
https://github.com/ubclaunchpad/PromoPal-frontend
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Software Developer
UBC Launch Pad
- 8 months
• Collaborated with other developers, designers, and a marketing strategist in an agile scrum team to create Keep Fresh: an iOS application for pantry and food waste management.
• Led the development of a user registration and authentication micro-service with REST URIs using TypeScript in Express.js and Node.js with MongoDB.
• Contributed to the implementation of an ingredient storage service and a recommendation service, leveraging knowledge in CRUD operations, PostgreSQL queries, and…• Collaborated with other developers, designers, and a marketing strategist in an agile scrum team to create Keep Fresh: an iOS application for pantry and food waste management.
• Led the development of a user registration and authentication micro-service with REST URIs using TypeScript in Express.js and Node.js with MongoDB.
• Contributed to the implementation of an ingredient storage service and a recommendation service, leveraging knowledge in CRUD operations, PostgreSQL queries, and testing with Jest.
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Software Developer
UBC Emerging Media Lab
- 8 months
EML is an experimental space where faculty, students, and staff from all disciplines collaborate with industry and community. Its mission is to evolve learning by creating tools and techniques using emerging media including Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality.
• Collaborated with the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) to develop an augmented reality application that displays real-time building sensor data.
• Implemented behavior of widgets using Microsoft's…EML is an experimental space where faculty, students, and staff from all disciplines collaborate with industry and community. Its mission is to evolve learning by creating tools and techniques using emerging media including Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality.
• Collaborated with the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) to develop an augmented reality application that displays real-time building sensor data.
• Implemented behavior of widgets using Microsoft's Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) and C# scripts in Unity for the Microsoft HoloLens.
• Practiced agile development within a team of 6 developers and UX designers.
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Faculty of Science Orientation Leader
The University of British Columbia
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• Provided ongoing peer support for new-to-UBC transfer students by answering inquiries.
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UBC Science Undergraduate Society
- 8 months
• Selected as 1 of 25 members out of 140+ applicants to envision and organize events for first-year students in the Faculty of Science.
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Advanced Software Engineering
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Applied Linear Algebra
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Basic Algorithms and Data Structures
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Computer Hardware and Operating Systems
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Computer Networking
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Distributed Systems
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Finding Relationships in Data
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Intermediate Algorithm Design and Analysis
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Introduction to Computer Systems
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Introduction to Relational Databases
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Introduction to Software Engineering
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Introduction to Statistical Inference
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Machine Learning and Data Mining
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Methods for Statistical Learning
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Software Construction
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