Summary
Shane Pope is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable systems and leading teams across startups and large enterprises. He most recently served as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) at Shopify, focused on incident management, large-scale distributed system debugging, and designing observability tools that cut time-to-resolution. Shane has held engineering and management roles at Autodesk, Rainforest QA, and National Instruments, and now builds product at Ashby from Dallas. He blends hands-on systems debugging with product-minded implementation, often translating operational learnings into developer-facing tools. A UT Austin CS honors graduate, he brings rare depth in both incident response and long-term infrastructure improvements.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, HONORS, Computer Science, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, HONORS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin