Shaun Lawrie
Platform Engineering Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolShaun Lawrie is a Platform Engineering Lead with a decade of experience designing and stabilizing high-scale systems, currently based in Chicago. He progressed from performance engineering through SRE to lead platform efforts at PartsTrader, blending deep performance diagnostics with pragmatic reliability practices. Shaun is particularly strong in PowerShell-driven automation and deployment orchestration, and has built load-generation and regression frameworks for cloud migrations at Trade Me. Known for a "break it, then fix it" mindset, he combines curiosity-driven fault injection with disciplined root-cause analysis to harden production services. His background uniquely pairs a Computer Science degree with formal music training, reflecting both analytical rigor and creative problem-solving. Peers rely on him to translate messy production symptoms into repeatable automation and measurable performance wins.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (92)
windows10
console-visualization10
bundler10
netcore10
jsx10
javascript10
linux10
dotnet10
prompt10
bun10
powershell-module10
powershell10
v8-javascript-engine10
shell10
executable10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ShaunLawrie/vagrant-hyperv-v2
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 6 months
vagrantvmsansibledockervirtualbox
ShaunLawrie/PwshSpectreConsole
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
👻 PwshSpectreConsole is a PowerShell wrapper for the awesome Spectre.Console library
Contributions:37 releases, 11 reviews, 50 PRs in 1 year 11 months
powershellpowershell-moduleprompt
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