Shane Archer
Independent Architect & Software Consultant at Self-Employed
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolShane Archer is an entrepreneurial software architect and consultant with 12 years of experience building and scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms, e-commerce systems, and high-load multiplayer services. He has founded and exited businesses, run a retail operation remotely, and led engineering teams as VP/CTO to stabilize and re-architect cloud-native platforms on AWS and Google Cloud. Hands-on across the stack, he specializes in Symfony/Next.js, React, Node, PostgreSQL/MySQL, containerized deployments, and AI-accelerated developer tooling. Shane’s work includes contributing database fixes and tests to the widely used Doctrine DBAL project, reflecting deep practical expertise in cross-database SQL behavior. Known for blending product-minded entrepreneurship with rigorous architecture and offshore team leadership, he thrives on turning complex, high-scale problems into maintainable systems. Based in San Diego, he continually adopts emerging tech to drive reliability, scalability, and measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (15)
doctrine10
sql-server10
databases10
postgresql10
sql10
database10
mysql9
testing9
php9
rdbms6
doctrine-orm6
indexing6
symfony6
ruby-on-rails6
pagination6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/dbal
Aug 2014 - Jan 2015
Doctrine Database Abstraction Layer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shane contributed to the Doctrine DBAL project by improving the handling of default timestamps in database schema definitions. Their work involved ensuring correct SQL generation for datetime and datetimetz types, specifically addressing behavior on different database systems including SQL Server. Additionally, they added unit tests to validate the default value declarations and included changes to allow operations like `DROP DATABASE` under PostgreSQL.
sql-servermysqlphpdbaloracle
sarcher/dbal
Jan 2015 - Apr 2019
Doctrine Database Abstraction Layer
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
mysqlphpdbaldatabasedatabase-abstraction-layer
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