Jerry Shanahan
Senior Software Engineer at American Express
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJerry Shanahan is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and evolving customer-facing web applications, currently driving projects at American Express out of the New York City area. He specializes in modern JavaScript stacks—React, Redux, Node, Express—and has hands-on experience with SQL and deployment patterns from both startup and enterprise environments. Jerry began his software career after a focused immersion at Hack Reactor and has a track record of taking ownership: from inheriting legacy codebases and shipping feature work to mentoring students as an instructor. His background also includes operational leadership running a seasonal hospitality business, which informs his pragmatic approach to team coordination, hiring, and process improvement. Colleagues describe him as a reliable engineer who balances clean front-end UX with robust back-end services and a knack for simplifying complex workflows.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Development Certificate Computer Programming, Full-Stack Web Development Certificate Computer Programming at Hack ReactorCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at SUNY Westchester Community CollegeGithub contributions (5)
Jerrys914/rhino-music
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 81 pushes, 65 branches in 4 months
TechCrunch-NYC-17/chatBot
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:17 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
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