Shane Myrick
Regional Director, Solutions Lead at Apollo GraphQL
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShane Myrick is a solutions-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience transitioning from web, API, and platform development into strategic solutions and regional leadership at Apollo GraphQL. He has progressed through architect and principal roles to Regional Director, bringing deep technical fluency in GraphQL and proven hands-on contributions to notable open-source work such as enhancements to ExpediaGroup's graphql-kotlin library. Based in Seattle, Shane excels at turning complex schema and platform challenges into practical, scalable solutions while coaching teams and stakeholders across product and operations. Unexpectedly, he balances high-level systems design with grassroots mentoring—evident from years coaching in the Seattle community—and a background that ranges from software testing to field work, which informs his pragmatic approach to delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan College of Engineering
English
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Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
schema-org10
graphql10
schema-design10
schema10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
documentation9
continuous-deployment6
jquery-ui6
graphql-java6
graphql-kotlin6
jquery6
graphql-subscriptions6
githubactions6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 210 reviews, 385 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the graphql-kotlin library, focusing on implementing and enhancing core functionalities. Their work involved adding documentation, fixing typos, and modifying code within the schema generation process. They introduced features such as moving hooks into the config and enabling custom handling. Their commits showcase a strong understanding of the library's internals and its relation to GraphQL schema generation.
graphql-clientgraphql-javaoss-portal-featuredgraphql-serverfederation
smyrick/kotlin-extensions
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
A simple Kotlin library that adds a few extra extensions on top of the Kotlin stdlib
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 41 commits in 1 year 3 months
kotlin-stdlibkotlin-extensionskotlin-languagekotlinextensions
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