Shane Pearson
Lead Architect at ATHL
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Pearson is a seasoned DevOps and web application engineer with 15 years of experience building full-stack applications, APIs, and systems, now based in Texas. He combines practical DevOps work—most recently developing the ATHL coin—with deep front-end and back-end skills across HTML5, JavaScript, PHP/Laravel, Java, MongoDB, and Apache Solr. Shane has a track record of improving core frameworks, contributing bug fixes and core-class enhancements to the popular CodeIgniter PHP project, and driving CI/CD and agile practices in production teams. His background ranges from lead developer roles to hands-on freelance and even general handyman work, reflecting a pragmatic, get-things-done approach and comfort with both high-level architecture and low-level troubleshooting. A UT Austin computer science graduate, he stays engaged with emerging web graphics technologies like Canvas, SVG and WebGL to push richer user experiences.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, French
Github Skills (5)
url-routing10
php-framework10
php10
codeigniter10
autoload9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Oct 2010 - Nov 2011
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the CodeIgniter framework. They addressed issues related to the 404 override functionality, fixing routing problems in subdirectories and ensuring autoloaded libraries are available. The user also made changes to core files, including the `Loader` and `Controller` classes, as well as documentation updates and changelog entries related to their fixes. This user contributed to the improvement of the framework's core functionality.
php-frameworkphpphp7php8
ruthlessfish/blog
Jul 2024 - Nov 2025
My clone repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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