Shane Faulkner
Director Of Engineering at Macmillan Learning
Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolShane Faulkner is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Macmillan Learning. He combines hands-on backend development and systems architecture with strong delivery instincts, having progressed from developer to technical lead, team lead, and now director. Shane has a track record of improving development processes—introducing CI/CD, branching strategies, and automation—and has led high-pressure delivery projects such as national promotional systems and accessibility remediations. He also contributes to open-source projects like Vaultwarden, adding API and real-time update support for attachment and cipher handling, showing his comfort with Rust and secure sync services. Based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, he pairs practical cloud and operations experience (Azure, AWS, containerization, Mongo) with a customer-focused, collaborative leadership style that emphasizes continuous refinement and automation.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Southwestern UniversityGeneral Studies, General Studies at Temple College
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Github Skills (10)
databases10
database-api10
rust10
api10
vaultwarden10
rocket10
apidoc10
database10
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 23 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on enhancing the Vaultwarden server's functionality, specifically addressing missing API endpoints and improving existing ones for attachment management. They implemented new APIs for admin and share attachment functionalities, including delete options, sharing, and notifications. The commits also included refactoring and improvements to core cipher and attachment handling logic. Furthermore, the user added support for CipherUpdate notifications, enabling real-time updates.
bitwarden-rsrustvaultwardendockerrocket
shauder/apple-wallet-shortcut
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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