Summary
Shane Trotter is an independent consultant and principal architect with 17 years building high-performance, mission-critical systems across finance, telecom, and security domains. He specializes in Ruby/Rails, Go, Python and full cloud-native stacks (AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes) and has delivered low-latency trading systems, big-data time-series pipelines, and packet-level intrusion analytics. Shane has repeatedly introduced pragmatic performance wins—moving polling architectures to real-time pub/sub and adding Go microservices to boost throughput—while owning end-to-end design, testing, and operational automation. His background includes implementing smart contracts and distributed p2p systems at a blockchain startup and authoring a patent for automated network device configuration, reflecting both experimental curiosity and production-grade rigor. Based in Tucson, AZ, he combines deep systems-level experience with hands-on development and architecture consulting for complex, regulated markets.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Web Development, Associate of Applied Science, Web Development at ITT Tech