Shopify Fine-Tuned Qwen3-32B for Tool-Calling
Author: @ShopifyEng
Date: 2026-04-23
Summary
Shopify reverse-engineered training data from thousands of merchant-created automations and fine-tuned Qwen3-32B into a tool-calling specialist. Real-world data from production automations used as training signal.
Key Insight
Production automation logs as training data for fine-tuning — a practical data flywheel.
Concepts
- Synthetic Data — though this is real data, not synthetic
- RL Infrastructure
See Also
- fine-tuning-as-service — fine-tuning platforms
- feedback-flywheel — compounding learning from production