Reuben Shaffer
Co-Founder at A Hat Rack
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolReuben Shaffer is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput systems across startups and large enterprises. He pairs deep hands-on systems and database expertise—25+ years coding primarily in C and extensive POSIX work—with senior leadership roles at companies like Dexcom, Microsoft, Blizzard, and Omron Healthcare. Reuben has repeatedly led teams to deliver resilient, data-driven platforms (designing systems for millions of concurrent users and petabyte-scale processing) while bridging product and engineering to maximize ROI. He’s equally comfortable architecting distributed data pipelines and driving organizational growth, and he champions innovation by tapping into intrinsic employee motivation. Based in Cleveland, he brings a pragmatic mix of startup agility and enterprise rigor, plus an uncommon blend of low-level programming fluency and strategic operational leadership.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Missouri State University
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Github Skills (12)
websocket6
dart6
ssl6
flutter6
git-repository5
opensimulator4
rust3
react2
javascript2
viewer2
webgl1
typescript1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reubenshaffer2/madman-overlay
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
reubenshaffer2/OpenCollar
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
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