Mikhail Parakhin

Mikhail Parakhin is Chief Technology Officer at Shopify, where he oversees engineering and data organizations. He is a technology executive with experience leading large-scale teams and products across machine learning, AI, search, advertising, cloud services, and digital assistants.

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Shopify

Sep 2024 — Present

Chief Technology Officer

Leads Shopify’s technology organization, including engineering, data, machine learning, and AI. Joined Shopify as CTO in August 2024.

Microsoft

CEO, Advertising and Web Services
Sep 2022 — Sep 2024
President, Web Experiences Team
Aug 2021 — Sep 2022
Corporate Vice President of Technology
Sep 2019 — Aug 2021
Redmond, Washington, United States
Partner Development Manager
Apr 2009 — Mar 2014
Principal Development Engineer, then Lead
Jul 2007 — Apr 2009

Yandex

CTO
May 2015 — Aug 2019
Director
Mar 2014 — May 2015

ParaScript

Dev Lead
Jul 2006 — Jul 2007
Staff Engineer
Sep 2000 — Jul 2006

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

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latent.space

How Shopify is adopting AI

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Mikhail Parakhin

Shopify

Microsoft

CEO, Advertising and Web Services

President, Web Experiences Team

Corporate Vice President of Technology

Partner Development Manager

Principal Development Engineer, then Lead

Yandex

CTO

Director

ParaScript

Dev Lead

Staff Engineer

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Products & media

How Shopify is adopting AI

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