Ellen Li

Ellen Li

Toronto

Projects

2024

Renovating an old, abandoned house in Komoro, a small town in rural Japan.

2023

Renovated my parents house to help them sell it.

2023

Living and training full-time at a muay thai gym in Bangkok for 4 months.

2022

Grinding and welding for Tarna, a metal art car.

2021

Join your next meeting from the menu bar.

2021
Product Growth Operations at Shopify, Retail

International expansion and new merchant acquisition/activation for Shopify POS.

2020

Product design and team lead for Multi-currency Shopify, launched August 2020.

2018
App Extensions at Shopify, Platform

Product design for Shopify App Extensions, launched August 2018.

2016
App Analytics at Shopify, Platform

Product design for Shopify App Analytics, launched August 2018.

2015

Product design for managing Shopify sales channels, launched early 2016.

Work Experience

2018 — Now

Side project turned self-sustaining business. See/join meetings from the macOS menu bar.

2015 — 2021

Product design, user research, project management, and product operations across Shopify's Platform, International, and Retail organizations.

2014 — 2015

Sole product designer at wearable tech startup building biometric authentication.

2011 — 2014

Computer simulations for cystic fibrosis research and drug discovery. Helped develop Orkambi; one of four medications available for treating cystic fibrosis today.

2006 — 2012
Founder / Webmaster at HB Network

Free webhosting for 100+ websites: blogs, forums, webrings, fanlistings, fanfiction, galleries, sheet music, and manga.

2018
Improv Workshop at Shopify R&D Summit
2017
“Introducing App Analytics“ at Shopify Pursuit
2017
Improv Workshop at Shopify UX Summit
2016
No-code Prototyping Workshop at McKinsey & Company
2015
“Make a Website!“ at Girls Learning Code
2015
“Your First Portfolio“ at University of Toronto
2015
“Wearable Tech and Physical Spaces“ at #a11yTO Camp

Education

2014 — 2016
Improv at The Second City
2015 — 2015
Intermediate Web Development at Brainstation

Contact

GitHub
Email