Arjan Shaw
Record Store Owner at PigStyle
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArjan Shaw is a software engineer with 12 years of experience who blends robust .NET development for government and scientific clients with entrepreneurial flair as the owner of PigStyle record store in Loveland, CO. His career includes senior roles maintaining USDA/NRCS and USGS applications, demonstrating reliability in mission-critical, grant-funded systems. Trained as a PhD in Forestry and Nature Conservation with an MA in Philosophy, he brings rare domain expertise that bridges environmental science, research software, and applied engineering. Comfortable contracting across teams and organizations, he repeatedly delivers maintainable solutions for long-lived public-sector projects. Based in Fort Collins, Arjan pairs technical depth with hands-on small-business leadership, suggesting strengths in customer-facing operations and community engagement beyond code. An unusual mix of academic research, government software, and indie retail ownership gives him a pragmatic, interdisciplinary perspective on solving complex problems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Forestry and Nature Conservation, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Forestry and Nature Conservation at The University of FreiburgMaster of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy, Master of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy at University of AmsterdamMSc, Forestry and nature conservation, MSc, Forestry and nature conservation at Wageningen University & Research
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (4)
idris9
distributed-computing8
deduplication7
agent6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ArjandeBruijn/OnlineResume
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:649 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
ArjandeBruijn/LandisUserInterface
Jun 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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