Shawn Krisman
Co-Founder CTO at foam
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Krisman is a Co-Founder and CTO based in Oakland with ten years of experience building scalable, full-stack web systems across startups and fintech. He’s led backend and payments engineering at companies like Affirm and Patreon and contributed meaningful refactors and feature work to reddit’s historical codebase, spanning backend, JavaScript, and CSS. A UC Berkeley bioengineering alum, he brings analytical rigor and a product-first engineering approach to rapidly shipping resilient systems. Outside of work he competes in fighting games, a hobby that reflects the competitive, iterative mindset he applies to technical leadership and startup building.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bioengineering, Bioengineering at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (8)
sitemap10
back-end-development10
python10
reddit9
javascripts8
javascript8
xml7
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily worked on back-end improvements and refactoring within the reddit.com codebase. Their commits demonstrate changes to account deactivation, sitemap generation, and post-sharing features. They also made modifications to the front-end code, specifically javascript, as well as CSS related to closing components, demonstrating some full-stack experience.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
telaviv/player-rankings
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:117 commits, 107 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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