Brian Shannon
AI Solution Engineer (Agentic Commerce) at Mastercard
Ireland
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Top SchoolBrian Shannon is an AI solution engineer and product leader with 12 years of experience building agentic, context-aware developer platforms and AI-first products across startups and enterprises. He combines hands-on full‑stack JavaScript and MLOps expertise with an MBA and dual MSc degrees to translate research-grade interaction models into production-grade inference architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and telemetry-backed guardrails. Brian has founded and exited startups, led developer ecosystems and API security teams, and now drives agentic commerce and automation at Mastercard, focusing on measurable gains in developer velocity, security, and operational predictability. Known for prototyping beyond chat—embedding coding assistants into IDEs and dashboards—he’s equally comfortable aligning stakeholders around KPIs and diving into API, caching, and rate-limit trade-offs. A practical tinkerer and startup mentor, he pairs graphic-design instincts with technical leadership to ship compelling UX for complex AI products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Science in Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Science in Artificial Intelligence at National College of IrelandMaster's degree Networks and Distributed systems, Master's degree Networks and Distributed systems at Trinity College DublinMaster of Business Administration - MBA New Business Development, Master of Business Administration - MBA New Business Development at Technological University DublinB.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science/Information Systems, B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science/Information Systems at Institute of Technology, Tallaght
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Github Skills (98)
hyperhtml10
webapp10
graphql-query10
nodejs10
file-structure10
redux10
state-management10
javascript9
linux9
js9
windows9
react-native9
asynchronous9
codemod9
flux-architecture9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codemeasandwich/graphql-query-builder
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
a simple but powerful graphQL query builder
Contributions:26 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
querybuilderquery-buildergraphql-querygraphql
codemeasandwich/scribbles
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
scribbles is a log and tracing lib for Node
Contributions:115 commits, 1 PR, 121 pushes in 3 years 7 months
scribblesconsoleloggertracinglogging
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