Shaun Wackerly
Senior Software Engineer at Paxos
Hurst, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Wackerly is a Senior Software Engineer with two decades of experience building distributed systems and a recent focus on tokenization at Paxos. He has led core services and refactors at Amazon for Alexa Shopping, boosting developer productivity and authoring cross-organizational proposals and coding standards. Prior roles at Aruba/HPE and earlier in embedded firmware and networking show deep expertise in Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, and low-level C on real-time OSes, plus hands-on ML prototyping for configuration clustering. Known for mentoring, technical leadership, and shipping practical tooling, he combines systems-level rigor with product-oriented delivery. Based in Hurst, Texas, he’s the kind of pragmatic engineer who pairs long-term architectural vision with frequent, measurable developer efficiency wins.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoBear River High SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (43)
kotlin10
jetbrains10
dev-environment10
ide10
provisioning10
code-review10
remote-development10
gitpod10
devcontainer10
disposable10
vscode10
android10
theia10
discord9
editor9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
webmsgr/discordTelnet
May 2019 - Jan 2020
My attempt to give discord.py a telnet interface, complete with probably unsafe threading!
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
unsafepythondiscorddiscord-botdiscord-py
webmsgr/webmsgr
Sep 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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