Shawn C.

I've been in the startup trenches for over 15 years, having experienced both the early stage crucible and the continuing support of successful projects.

As a mentor, I volunteered and worked for an educational non-profit for 4 years. I've also been an instructor and emcee for a local Lindy Hop dance venue I started for the past 4 years. It's a secret life I live away from the computers, but I believe those experience has helped me as a mentor. Most importantly, I believe in supporting newcomers and underrepresented groups into tech field, because this is the way to make technologies better serve the whole world.

As a developer, I've worked on technologies used by film icons like Brad Pitt, designed and developed online games that had millions of users, and built mission-critical health care systems.

As a mentor, my strength is in the ability to explain domain knowledge in a way that is easy to grasp, through analogies and examples. I have hired and coached many early-career engineers and it's something that I particularly enjoyed.

To me, software engineering is a tool that brings ideas to life, and my career focus has reflected that. While I love to learn and talk computer science theories with fellow programmers, my passion lies in building what delivers value for the end users, our community, and the world.