Shaun Patterson
Tech Overlord at undisclosed
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Patterson is a veteran software engineer and technology leader with 26 years of experience, currently serving as Tech Overlord at XUP Payments where he architects payment integrations and transactional systems. He blends deep expertise in backend engineering, machine learning, and data mining with a long history of delivering production systems for retail, finance, and defense customers. Shaun has led teams and critical projects—from in-store navigation and inventory robotics at The Home Depot to launching major e-commerce sites for Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie—while mentoring AI students as a Udacity reviewer. He works at the intersection of social analytics, reinforcement learning, and automated trading, and has contributed robustness and API error-handling improvements to a popular TD Ameritrade Python client. Based in Atlanta, he pairs practical, product-focused engineering with curiosity-driven side projects (including award-winning hot sauce and a fiendish crossword-regex mashup), showing a knack for creative problem solving outside typical corporate work.
26 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Alphasprach StudioBS, Management Science, BS, Management Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
json10
apim10
spring10
python10
spring-mvc10
api10
rest10
error-handling10
pandas9
java9
finance8
algorithmic-trading7
hashtable6
junit6
itext6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
timkpaine/tdameritrade
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Python interface to TD Ameritrade (https://developer.tdameritrade.com)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shaun focused on enhancing the error handling and overall robustness of the Python library interacting with the TD Ameritrade API. This involved forwarding API errors to the user and handling 429 Too Many Requests errors. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate work on integrating with the TD Ameritrade API including adding transaction and option functionality. These changes include updates to account and instrument functionalities.
algorithmic-tradingpythontdameritrade-apiameritradepython-interface
shaunpatterson/ideavim
Mar 2016 - Jan 2024
Vim emulation plug-in for IDEs based on the IntelliJ platform.
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 10 months
intellij-platformvimplug-inemulationintellij-plugin
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