Shannon Burns
Engineering Manager at Cisco Meraki
United States
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Top SchoolShannon Burns is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused teams across startups and enterprise products. Currently an Engineering Manager at Cisco Meraki, she previously led engineering as VP/Head roles at Gitpod, Universe, and Flatfile where she doubled org size, implemented DORA metrics, and boosted engineering velocity by 300%. Her background spans hands-on engineering, developer relations, and community building—from early roles at Slack and NGINX to founding a nonprofit that advanced women in tech. She brings a blend of product-minded execution and people-first hiring processes, routinely translating ambiguous problems into clear operational rhythm. Known for cross-functional communication with execs and boards, she also has a track record of winning business-facing initiatives (including a sales hackathon top deal) that bridge engineering and revenue. Based in the United States, she pairs technical depth with a history of fostering inclusive, repeatable growth in fast-moving organizations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Recreation Parks and Tourism Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS) Recreation Parks and Tourism Administration at San Francisco State UniversitySoftware Engineering Fellowship Python, Software Engineering Fellowship Python at Hackbright Academy
Github Skills (44)
jetbrains10
slack-bot10
python10
websocket10
remote-development10
slack10
aiohttp-client10
websocket-client10
aiohttp10
dev-environment9
code-review9
jython9
provisioning9
ide9
theia9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slackapi/build-this-bot-workshop
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Learn how to build a bot on Slack using Python
Contributions:46 commits, 24 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
pythonbotslack-botslackbuild-a-bot
karishay/tiny_teacher
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes in 4 months
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