Shaun Reed
Senior Software Engineer at TileDB
Canton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Reed is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and maintaining production infrastructure, currently contributing to the core storage engine at TileDB. Comfortable from bare-metal Ubuntu servers to customized developer environments, he blends C++ systems development with practical DevOps—Ansible, Docker, cron, Fail2ban and OSSEC—to run and secure small cloud fleets on DigitalOcean. He has hands-on experience with Git and SVN and publishes implementations of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns in public repos, alongside contributions that improved TileDB’s metadata, filtering, and CI workflows. A former systems operations analyst, he pairs on-call and incident-response rigor with code-first problem solving, and he actively pursues side projects that broaden his tooling and platform expertise.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
HVAC, HVAC at Portage Lakes Career CenterBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Kent State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Perry High School
English
Github Skills (17)
algorithm10
algorithms10
storage-engine10
c-language10
typed-array10
multidimensional-arrays10
dynamic-array10
arrayobject10
data-structure10
data-structures10
datastructures-algorithms10
cprogramming-language10
parallel-arrays10
data-science9
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TileDB-Inc/TileDB
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The Universal Storage Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:253 reviews, 37 commits, 109 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to the core functionality of the TileDB storage engine. Their work includes modifying the Metadata::deserialize constructor, implementing and adding tests for the WebP filter, and fixing schema validation and related exceptions. They also addressed issues related to sparse, unordered remote queries. Furthermore, they added a `must_find` marker for config gets, and enhanced CI workflows.
storage-enginetiledbarraysscientific-computingdata-analysis
TileDB-Inc/tiledb-feedstock
Nov 2022 - Jul 2026
A conda-smithy repository for tiledb.
Contributions:1241 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
conda
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