Shopify, a Canadian multinational eCommerce commerce company — provides an online platform with tools to start, grow, market and manage retail businesses of any size, stores and retail Point-of-Sale (POS) systems to over 1 million businesses in 175 countries. Trusted trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, Heinz, Staples Canada, among others, 1.58 million websites run on Shopify as of 2021, , according to Builtwith. The enterprise is the largest publicly-traded Canadian company by market capitalization. “We’ve built our platform on Ruby on Rails,” said Robert Guay, Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property (IP) at Shopify. “We view open source software as a key foundation for our business.”