Overview
Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie serves as Chief Technology Officer at Inspiren as of August 2025[1][3]. Simoneau-Ritchie brings over 20 years of engineering experience in the technology industry, having built and led engineering teams at Shopify, Lever, Wealthsimple, Affinity, IBM, and BlackBerry, with teams reaching over 270 engineers[2]. Prior roles include Chief Technology Officer at Affinity.co from September 2023 to January 2025[4], Vice President of Engineering at Wealthsimple from November 2020 to March 2023[5], and Director of Engineering at Lever from June 2019 to November 2020[6]. Simoneau-Ritchie previously held senior engineering positions at Shopify beginning in August 2014[7] and worked at QNX Software Systems in various technical roles from 2010 to 2014[8][9][10]. Simoneau-Ritchie holds a BEng in Software Engineering from Concordia University[11] and a DEC in Computer Science from CEGEP - John Abbott College[12].
Profile introduction
With over 20 years of experience as an engineer in the tech industry, I've built and led engineering teams at Shopify, Lever, Wealthsimple, Affinity, IBM and BlackBerry -- leading teams as large as 270+ engineers. I love building things well, and as such I've redesigned and built platforms and APIs from the ground up for many of the places I've worked. I launched the first BlackBerry 10 device on QNX, and then adapted what we built to QNX Car for millions of drivers to enjoy. I was among the first to create GraphQL APIs for Shopify and enhanced Lever's platform to make it easy to significantl…
Career history
- Chief Technology OfficerAug 2025 to presentInspiren
- Chief Technology OfficerSep 2023 to Jan 2025Affinity.co
- Vice President Of EngineeringNov 2020 to Mar 2023Wealthsimple
- Director, EngineeringJun 2019 to Nov 2020Lever
- Senior Engineering ManagerAug 2014 to May 2019Shopify
- Senior Software Development Manager, Concept Design Group and Application FrameworkOct 2013 to Aug 2014QNX Software Systems
- Senior Software Development Manager, Home Screen and Application ManagementApr 2012 to Mar 2014QNX Software Systems
- Technical Project ManagerDec 2010 to Apr 2012QNX Software Systems
- Chief Technology OfficerAffinity
Education
BEng, Software Engineering2002 - 2006Concordia University
- DEC, Computer Science at CEGEP1998 - 2002John Abbott College
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