Shane Sveller
Senior Software Engineer 2 at Ockam
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarShane Sveller is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating distributed systems, currently focused on secure, cloud-native backends at Ockam in Chicago. He blends backend Elixir development, Kubernetes and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Ockam’s end-to-end encryption platform and a Nix flake-based developer environment—with night-time experimentation in Rust, programming languages research, and gamedev. His career spans senior roles across startups and enterprises (Cars.com, Fast Radius, dscout), where he has driven platform reliability, automation, and API-driven services. Shane’s work marries practical operational rigor with a curiosity for language design and low-level tooling, making him as comfortable shipping production features as iterating on developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
rust10
nix10
elixir10
authorization9
security9
user-authentication9
authentication9
authorizations9
distributed-systems8
encryption8
documentation7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:186 reviews, 55 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to back-end development by modifying Elixir code, specifically within the Ockam services API endpoints, and also removing unused dependencies and updating typespecs. Additionally, the user demonstrated DevOps skills by integrating a Nix flake-based development environment, which enhances the build and development process. The user also made contributions towards documentation updates, enhancing clarity for space and project naming conventions.
policyenforcemente2eeidentitycredentials
shanesveller/nixpkgs
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:5 commits, 30 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 10 months
nixosnix-packages
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