John Shaver
Software Engineer III And Technical Lead at Lightcast
Hayden, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Shaver is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and technical lead with 11 years of professional experience and over 15 years as a technology enthusiast, currently guiding a team at Lightcast to deliver secure, scalable API-driven products. He blends hands-on TypeScript/Node/React development with DevOps and cloud expertise—Terraform, AWS, Serverless, and Docker—to move prototypes into production reliably. As a co-founder at ppl :) he pursues privacy-forward, plug-and-play family servers, showing a sustained interest in user-owned data and simple protocols. His background ranges from enterprise support at Symantec to building SPAs and mobile-integrated web tooling, giving him a rare mix of customer-facing troubleshooting and architecture-level design. Though not heavily active on GitHub today, he consistently ships well-documented, maintainable systems and values testability and clear API design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Networking Systems, Computer Networking Systems at SeaTac Occupational Skills CenterTyee High SchoolSome Computer Science and General classes, Computer Science, Some Computer Science and General classes, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (73)
javascript9
react9
frontend9
preact-router9
declarative8
user-interface8
build-automation7
typescript7
vagrant-plugin7
docker7
continuous-integration7
continuous-delivery6
earth6
preact6
esxi6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bobjohnbob/elmman
Oct 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches, 1 issue in 3 years 4 months
bobjohnbob/vim-monokai
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Refined Monokai color scheme for vim
Contributions:7 pushes in 4 years
schemevimrefinedmonokai-color-schemecolor-scheme
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