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A weekly breakdown for merchants, partners and developers: what changed, who it affects, and what to do next.
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About
I'm Khalid Chao, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Shopify, based in Dubai.
I track Shopify's releases — product launches, Editions, changelog updates, POS, Plus, Flow, Sidekick and agentic commerce — and explain what each one means in practice for the merchants, agencies and developers who build on it.
Before my current role I spent three and a half years as Senior Launch Engineer for EMEA, leading Shopify Plus and POS launches for merchants across Europe and the Middle East.
What I cover
- Shopify product releases
- Shopify Plus
- Shopify POS & unified commerce
- Shopify Flow & automation
- Sidekick & the app ecosystem
- Agentic commerce
Experience
- 2025 — nowSenior Solutions Engineer
Shopify · Dubai - 2022 — 2025Senior Launch Engineer, EMEA
Shopify · Shopify Plus and POS launches - 2016 — 2022Technical Support Engineer
Superdry · Belgium - 2006 — 2015Earlier roles
Peleman Industries, DHL Express, Vodafone
Shopify moves fast.
I break it down.
One email a week. Every release that matters, explained.