Beau Shaw
Chief Technology And Founder at STRAIGHTLINE
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBeau Shaw is a founder and Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently building Straightline, a real-time truckload booking, matching, and payments platform in Nashville. He blends hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular FeathersJS framework, where he optimized adapters and improved multi-create performance—with product-level leadership from founding and running multiple startups and freelance work. His background spans HIPAA-compliant medical web apps to logistics and consumer-facing projects, giving him a rare mix of regulated-privacy experience and fast-moving marketplace engineering. Comfortable across the full stack, Beau focuses on shipping pragmatic, performance-minded solutions that scale. He pairs a business degree from the University of Memphis with operator instincts honed by running technology and marketing teams. An interesting detail: beyond leading companies, he still contributes directly to open-source infrastructure improvements that benefit broader backend ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business, BS, Business at The University of MemphisGermantown High School
Github Skills (16)
feathersjs10
javascript10
nodejs10
api10
performance-optimization10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
api-design9
typescript-types9
restful-api9
database9
rest-api9
typescript9
typescripts9
api-rest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
feathersjs/feathers
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
The API and real-time application framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 10 PRs, 64 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Beau primarily contributed to bug fixes and performance improvements within the FeathersJS framework. They addressed issues in various adapters, including the REST client, memory adapter, and MongoDB adapter, demonstrating proficiency in these backend components. The user implemented optimizations in the memory adapter for improved performance and speeded up multi-create operations in the MongoDB adapter. Furthermore, the user refactored to add features like underscored methods in clients.
apirealtimebrowserreact-nativejavascript
DaddyWarbucks/feathers-sequelize
Apr 2019 - Jun 2024
A Feathers service adapter for the Sequelize ORM. Supporting MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, SQLite, and SQL Server
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
adapterormsql-serversequelizefeathers-service
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