George Shank
Technology Consultant at Tatersoft
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Shank is a technology consultant with 14 years of experience designing and shipping secure, distributed systems primarily in Go. He has held senior and staff engineering roles at companies including CrowdStrike, OODA Health, Walmart Labs, and Space Monkey, focusing on edge computing, last-mile traffic optimization, and distributed data storage. Known for turning vague, hard problems into practical solutions, he combines hands-on systems engineering with QA and test automation expertise—evident from contributions improving test infrastructure for the mongoosastic Elasticsearch integration. Based in Salt Lake City, he balances large-scale infrastructure work with freelance and consulting engagements, helping organizations tighten reliability and security at scale. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often surfaces improvements that reduce technical debt while increasing operational visibility.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Weber State University
Github Skills (14)
testing10
elasticsearch-api10
unit-testing10
mongoose10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
nodejs10
javascript10
aws-elasticsearch10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
test-automation10
amazon-elasticsearch10
jestjs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongoosastic/mongoosastic
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Index Mongoose models into elasticsearch automatically.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the quality of the `mongoosastic` library. Their contributions involved updating and refactoring existing tests to align with API changes and functionalities. They also addressed conflicts and made adjustments to the codebase, as well as refactoring to remove any unused code or functions. Additionally, the user updated the query interface, enhancing its usability.
indexelasticjavascriptnodejsmongoose
taterbase/mongoosastic
Jan 2013 - Oct 2014
Index mongoose models into elastic search for kickass searching.
Contributions:97 commits in 1 year 9 months
mongoose-pluginindexelasticnodejsmongoose
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