George Shaw is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience building and leading high-impact engineering teams across startups and enterprise products. He progressed from consultant and individual contributor roles to technical lead, manager, and now principal positions at Outreach and Atlassian, demonstrating strong hands-on architecture and delivery skills. Comfortable spanning research, design, and development, he focuses on scalable, maintainable systems and mentors engineers through technical leadership roles. His background includes frequent consulting engagements across industries, giving him broad domain fluency and an ability to onboard quickly into new stacks. Active on GitHub, he maintains a public presence that reinforces his commitment to continual learning and craft. Collected training in computer science with a math minor underpins a pragmatic, data-informed approach to engineering decisions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Wichita Area Technical College
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Wichita State University
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George Shaw - Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian