Neil Shannon
Founder at NTS Development LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Shannon is a technologist and founder with 14 years of professional software development experience and a coding pedigree stretching back to the early 1990s. He blends hands-on polyglot engineering (notably Java, Scala, and JavaScript) with enterprise architecture and product leadership across industries including payments, healthcare, supply chain, media, and cybersecurity. Comfortable both as a solo R&D hacker and as a bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams, he has led teams at scale and driven cloud migrations and microservices transformations. His background includes principal and staff engineering roles at major enterprises and consulting stints delivering high-stakes systems such as large-scale auction platforms and mission-critical payment interfaces. Based in Austin, he runs NTS Development LLC, freelancing as a cloud-savvy architect and developer, and maintains an active GitHub presence that reflects his polyglot, cloud-focused tooling and architecture interests. Colleagues know him for curiosity-driven problem solving and for translating complex legacy landscapes into pragmatic, scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Github Skills (28)
azure8
command-line-interface8
azure-cli8
fluxcd7
gitops7
gatling6
loadtest6
java6
kubernetes6
performance-testing5
scala5
cicd5
architecture5
netty5
kotlin5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neilshannon/neo4j-scala-linkedin
Nov 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
neilshannon/atlanta-scala-microservice
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 70 pushes, 4 branches in 25 days
linkedinmicroservicemicroservicesneo4j
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