Shopify welcomes new CTO Mikhail Parakhin

Great products come from great craftsmanship, and we’re focused on building Shopify with the industry’s best crafters and leaders at the helm. We’re thrilled to welcome Mikhail Parakhin, one of the finest machine learning (ML) crafters on the planet, as Shopify’s Chief Technology Officer. 

Mikhail's career is a testament to his ability to build critical infrastructure and invent key technology that has made a significant impact on the broader tech industry. Specifically, he led Microsoft's AI advancement, building consumer and enterprise-facing products like Copilot. Between stints at Microsoft, Mikhail was Chief Technology Officer at Yandex, where he developed multiple search engines, cloud services, digital assistants, and ClickHouse. 

As CTO, Mikhail will oversee our engineering and data organizations and push Shopify to the cutting edge, not just in ML and AI, but in everything we’re building to make commerce better for everyone. And we can’t wait.