Summary
Avner Shanan is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience delivering pragmatic, people-centered solutions across startups and mid-size companies. He has a strong track record modernizing monolithic Ruby/Rails systems, building customer-facing REST APIs, and leading cross-functional upgrades to maintain compliance and reliability. Avner blends hands-on implementation in Ruby, Python, and IaC with mentorship and program-building—he's led departmental mentorship and hiring efforts and created engineering ladders and onboarding programs. His work has produced measurable operational impact, from cutting support tickets by ~80% with a data validation tool to saving ~$15k/year and hundreds of hours via a revamped video rendering pipeline. Comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact projects, he pairs technical proposals and decision records with team coaching and workshop leadership. Based in the United States with a CS/Bioengineering background, he prioritizes people as the core of technology and scales systems with that human focus in mind.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Bioengineering, B.S. Computer Science Bioengineering at University of Illinois Chicago
Whitney Young
Spanish