Jarry Shaw
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJarry Shaw is a security-focused software development engineer with nine years of experience blending hands-on software development and deep incident response expertise, currently building at AWS from Toronto. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MS Information Security) and Shanghai Jiao Tong (BE), he’s led forensic investigations, penetration tests, and compliance audits while also architecting full-stack Python tooling and a large Flask codebase to automate forensic workflows. Jarry contributes to open-source—improving the widely used parso Python parser by hardening error handling for f-strings and assignment expressions and expanding tests for nested comprehensions—showing attention to subtle language-edge cases. Comfortable moving between low-level forensic detail and scalable cloud engineering, he brings practical courtroom-facing investigation experience and production software craftsmanship to security-sensitive systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Security at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Information Security, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Security at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
French, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
parser10
parsing10
python10
parse10
abstract-syntax-tree10
pytest9
testing9
f-string6
flask6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davidhalter/parso
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
A Python Parser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jarry primarily focused on improving the `parso` Python parser by implementing and refining error handling for assignment expressions and f-strings. Their contributions involved adding new rules, revising existing ones, and adding failing examples to the test suite to cover edge cases related to assignment expression and f-string syntax errors. They also improved the parser's ability to deal with nested comprehensions.
pythonpython3python-parserparser
JarryShaw/JarryShaw
Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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