AI Everywhere in Software Engineering

Paulo Arruda is a Staff Engineer at Shopify, helping shape AI orchestration strategy for Revenue Data after serving as tech lead for the company's Augmented Engineering Developer Experience team. Creator of Claude Swarm (1.4k+ GitHub stars) and its successor SwarmSDK—a multi-agent orchestration framework in Ruby—he has delivered 65-190x automation speedups and reduced 20-hour workflows to minutes. With 15+ years as a backend and infrastructure engineer, Paulo combines platform thinking with pragmatic skepticism, advocating for AI that augments rather than replaces developers—and isn't afraid to question the hype.