John Gully

Background

About John Gully

I have a deep background in design and technology, and enjoy bringing new products to life. As a leader of great people, I help others reach for and realize their potential as a part of a high-performing team. I desire to spend time working with passionate people to create new and exciting products that make a difference. I'm currently at Shopify leading a team of more than 50 engineers building the future of Merchandising. We are working on exciting new capabilities for merchants using cutting edge tech such as ChatGPT LLM AI and Remix. Prior to Shopify I led the Technology Enablement and UX practices for Slalom's Dallas office. I grew a healthy consulting business for Slalom, while helping building amazing products for our clients. I helped designers and developers work better together, and supported teams seeking to transform their ways of working and move to high-performance. I also partnered with Marcelo Somers to develop and release PatternPack, a design system framework that was Slalom's first sponsored open source project. As an engineering leader, my hands on skills include: software engineering (I love anything javascript), engineering leadership development, and team performance development. I also speak at conferences and user groups including Big Design, Day of.NET and NDDNUG.