Summary
Shanon Place is a Principal Technical Account Manager and former Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale web and content platforms from Portland, Oregon. At Contentful she blends hands-on engineering (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, .NET Core) with customer-facing strategy to help enterprises model content, integrate APIs, and modernize digital experiences. Her background includes leading cross-discipline teams on high‑traffic e-commerce, multi-tenant SaaS, and complex integrations for airlines, finance, and gaming, and she frequently bridges product, sales, and engineering to align technical solutions with business outcomes. Comfortable both writing code and shaping architecture, she’s known for pragmatic migrations (SVN→Git), performance tooling, and building developer-facing utilities that reveal runtime issues. Shanon’s mix of academic grounding in computer science and decades of production experience gives her a rare ability to translate nuanced technical constraints into scalable, operational solutions.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Vermont
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Physical and Biological Anthropology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Physical and Biological Anthropology at University of South Florida