Shawn Badger
Principal Software Engineer at Blackwire Signals, LLC
Riverton, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Badger is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience delivering embedded and systems software across security and communications domains. Based in Riverton, Utah, he leads architectural and driver development at Blackwire Signals, including secure client/server communications, state machines, and Linux kernel debugging for camera products. He brings deep C++ expertise (modern C++, Go, Rust, Python) and a passion for Linux, with hands-on work spanning gRPC/protobuf, MQTT, Yocto, and performance-oriented design. A committed mentor and collaborator, he emphasizes code quality, RAII memory management, and scalable, maintainable architectures while guiding junior engineers. An active open-source contributor who enjoys functional languages and even uses the Dvorak keyboard for efficiency, he has previously driven video and camera software for Vivint and Sorenson and contributed to production-grade embedded systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utah State UniversityThe University of Utah
Japanese
Github Skills (95)
vim10
editor10
kakoune10
rust10
lichess10
text-editor10
play-framework10
chess10
type-safe10
functional-programming10
front-end9
linux9
podman9
mmap9
protobuf9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xedrac/config
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
xedrac/aoc
Dec 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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