Austin Shoemaker
Vice President Research And Development at PenLink
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Shoemaker is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with over 18 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President of Research and Development at PenLink in Lincoln, Nebraska. He combines hands-on architecture and engineering with people leadership, driving conceptual integrity and turning complex requirements into actionable project plans and reliable releases. Throughout his tenure at PenLink he progressed from senior engineer and team lead to chief software architect and R&D head, consistently solving hard problems and guiding cross-functional teams. With an M.S. in Computer Science and a background in computational genomics research, he brings both academic rigor and practical system design to product-focused development. Notably, he emphasizes making difficult engineering challenges appear straightforward, blending deep technical judgment with clear communication to executives and product managers.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaB.S., Computer Science, Business Administration, B.S., Computer Science, Business Administration at Nebraska Wesleyan University
Github Skills (42)
portable10
sidecar10
event-driven10
dapr10
state-management10
serverless10
microservices10
pubsub10
deploying9
kubernetes9
tye9
distributed-systems9
golang9
cve9
cloud-native9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Pen-Link/tye
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.
Contributions:8 reviews, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
developingabilitydeploying-microservicesmicroserviceorchestration
Pen-Link/aspnetcore
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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