Shaughn Finnerty
Principal Software Engineer at Homebase
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShaughn Finnerty is a Principal Software Engineer based in Toronto with 11 years of experience building scalable data and analytics platforms and product-facing features. He has led teams at Lever to design resilient ETL pipelines (Postgres → Snowflake) using Kafka, Debezium, and Snowflake Tasks, and built self-healing transformation services that recovered tens of millions of documents. Comfortable across the full stack, he has shipped embedded analytics, Looker integrations and UI improvements while also tuning database replication and performance at scale. Currently at Homebase, he combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—owning specs, reviews, and delivery for cross-functional projects. An early contributor to the MarkUs open-source project, he has a knack for pragmatic front-end polish and backend fixes that improve observability and user workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Ottawa
English
Github Skills (10)
activerecord10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
front-end-development9
html9
git9
javascript8
css7
database-design6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shaughn primarily contributed to the MarkUs project by enhancing the user interface and backend functionality. They improved the display of statistics in the assignment models. The user also focused on the front-end, adding features such as a link back to the summary view and implementing functionality to hide spreadsheets and filter assignment indexes. Other contributions include code style changes and fixes for display and application errors.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
finnergizer/twitter-information-retrieval-system
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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