Summary
Chewy Shaw is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing at Zipline AI from Fremont, CA. He brings deep SRE and systems coding expertise from a decade at Google working on Borg—authoring C++ and Go code, on-call incident mitigation, and safe service draining mechanisms. At startups like Lita he bridged engineering, product, and partner conversations to prototype a zkVM on AWS, and he led a 70-person open-source project (PlayHvZ) that turned a playful idea into a production-ready platform. Comfortable speaking publicly and recruiting cross-functional contributors, Chewy blends hands-on systems engineering with leadership and community-building skills rooted in an MIT CS education and an unusual minor in Theater Arts.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (SB) Computer Science Minor in Theater Arts, Bachelor of Science (SB) Computer Science Minor in Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology