Summary
Brian Shaw is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, backend systems and distributed services, informed by a deep hardware and streaming-data background. He has shipped production features across domains from real-time databases and ad-tracking to job-search engines and messaging platforms, improving reliability and reducing error rates by an order of magnitude. Comfortable working close to the metal, he has implemented performance-critical C/C++ and Java components, Kafka integrations, and ETL pipelines while also architecting test frameworks and team processes. He balances technical depth with product and human context, having stepped back to focus on health and now returning to make an impact at IBM. Based in Greater Boston, he brings both systems-level insight and a pragmatic focus on long-term product quality.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering. Minor in Computer Science., Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering. Minor in Computer Science. at Worcester Polytechnic Institute