Adam Shaw
Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company
Manchester, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Shaw is an engineering manager and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building and leading software teams across startups and large enterprises, currently at The Walt Disney Company. He has founded and led companies as President/Chief Software Architect, served as CTO in pre-launch ventures, and repeatedly stepped into hands-on engineering and architecture roles to ship scalable, maintainable platforms. Adam is passionate about clean, beautiful code and pragmatic delivery—often emphasizing sustainable, testable systems that teams can own long-term. His background spans media, managed services, and enterprise software, with notable projects modernizing video and managed-services platforms. Trained in philosophy, he brings a thoughtful, law-curious perspective to product and technical decisions that helps bridge strategy and execution. Based in Manchester, Connecticut, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a preference for unpretentious, effective engineering.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at Trinity College-Hartford
Github Skills (38)
pocket10
headless-browser10
warc10
wayback-machine9
firefox9
dub9
browser-history8
launcher8
python8
baduk8
chromium8
youtube-dl8
wget8
rss8
archiving8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
follower46/ashaw-notes
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
Note taking made easy
Contributions:150 commits, 62 PRs, 124 pushes in 4 years 8 months
notes-appnotesnote-taking
follower46/micropython-oled-progressbars
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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