Barry McGee — Agentic Software Engineer
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Barry McGee

Agentic Software Engineer

Two decades shipping software.Now I ship itwith agents.

I’m an IC at Shopify, building agentic features into products that millions of merchants depend on — and shipping at multiples of the pace with AI in the loop.
Get in touch
barry@belfast — zsh
~ $ barry --whoami
role →IC at Shopify
based →Belfast, NI · fully remote since 2016
stack →TypeScript · React · Remix · Ruby · React Native
agents →multiple harnesses, in the loop daily
writes →agentic engineering · design systems · senior IC craft
talks at →conferences, meetups, your team
~ $
Currently · since July 2021
Shopify

IC at Shopify

Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses worldwide — from solo creators to global brands selling across web, mobile, retail and social.

TypeScriptReactRemixRubyReact NativeAI
Career so far

Products that mattered. Two decades of them.

Canonical
Paul Smith

Full timeline → /experience

Let’s talk

Working on something the right kind of hard?

Happy to talk about agentic engineering, advisory work, speaking, or interesting problems you’re tackling. The good emails start with a real problem and a sentence about what you’ve already ruled out.

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