Shane Russell
Software Engineer at Pavilion
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShane Russell is a pragmatic, product-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable web applications and operational delivery pipelines from startup to federal scale. Based in San Francisco, he’s shipped customer-facing features at One Medical and Pavilion and led engineering for Caseflow at the U.S. Digital Service, where his team enabled daily production deployments and delivered a system that saved millions in time and prevented lost veteran appeals. He’s comfortable as a “tech lead who codes,” having grown and mentored teams while shaping CI/CD, automated testing, and AWS deployment strategies. Early work spans Rails platform improvements, frontend single-page apps, and research-grade C++ tooling, showing a breadth from low-level systems to polished user experiences. Shane combines hands-on implementation with stakeholder facilitation—translating complex policy and legacy-system constraints into pragmatic technical solutions. Colleagues would note his blend of product sensibility and bureaucratic grit that gets difficult integrations across agencies and organizations unstuck.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Alabama
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Github Skills (100)
web-application10
qunit10
soap-api10
claims10
qbcore-framework10
aem10
browser9
bdd9
tushare9
runner9
protractor9
test-runner9
agile-development9
frontend9
tdd9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
department-of-veterans-affairs/sniffybara
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Gem that adds automatic 508 accessibility compliance checks into your Capybara specs
Contributions:34 commits, 10 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 3 months
checklistperformance-optimizationendpoint-securityrisk-assessmentspecs
department-of-veterans-affairs/roadrunner-rails
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Base rails project with the VA special sauce.
Contributions:53 commits, 23 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 months
railssaucerubyrails-project
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