Leif Shackelford
Engineering Manager at Metrc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Shackelford is an engineering manager based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading teams across fintech, hardware, and creative technology. Currently at Metrc, he blends rapid technical learning with a big-picture systems view to ship secure, scalable services using modern cloud-native tooling. Previously a CTO and founder at Chroma and Structure Sound, he drove full-stack architecture, continuous deployment, and the integration of hardware and software products. His background in classical and electronic music informs a rare mix of technical discipline and creative problem-solving—he’s equally comfortable designing audio systems or orchestrating Kubernetes deployments. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions, Leif brings entrepreneurial grit and cross-domain fluency to product and engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Classical / Electronic Music, Bachelor's degree Classical / Electronic Music at Oberlin College
German
Github Skills (103)
oauth9
typescript9
vault8
rest8
trie8
cryptocurrency8
arweave8
gcp7
secrets7
authentication7
grammars7
parser7
dumper7
kubernetes7
authorization7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
structuresound/tmake
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:118 commits, 13 PRs, 189 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cppcmakebuild-engine
structuresound/nodeKitten
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
opengl
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