Shaun Warman
Lead Software Engineer at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Warman is a Lead Software Engineer based in Austin with 12 years building distributed systems, security-minded architectures, and developer-friendly platforms. At PayPal he led web platform and Node.js efforts, shipping merchant onboarding, a configurable payments engine, and a responsive PayPal Plus UI focused on performance and integration ease. His open-source contributions show hands-on full-stack work—improving authentication, 2FA, and account workflows for privacy-focused projects like forwardemail.net and enhancing back-end framework features in Lad.js. Comfortable across Java, Node.js, React and Couchbase, he blends enterprise experience from NASA and defense with modern web practices. Curious and pragmatic, he lives by “when in doubt, zoom out,” often resolving complexity by stepping back to simplify systems and improve security and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Fort Lewis Collegenodefirmcoursera
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Github Skills (28)
asynchronous10
mongoose10
2factor10
javascript10
sendmail10
forward-proxy10
async10
send-email10
authentication10
user-authentication10
smtps10
smtp10
otp10
mongodb-database10
e-mail10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ladjs/lad
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
:boy: Lad is the best Node.js framework. Made by a former Express TC and Koa team member.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 50 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily worked on the back-end of the Lad.js framework, focusing on authentication, user management, and email verification functionalities. They made changes to the user model, controller logic, and configuration files, adding features like two-factor authentication (2FA) with recovery keys and email change confirmation. The contributions included refactoring views and implementing new features such as email sending using a background task.
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forwardemail/forwardemail.net
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Privacy-focused encrypted email for everyone. All-in-one alternative to Gmail + Mailchimp + Sendgrid.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 42 PRs, 12 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shaun made numerous changes related to user authentication, two-factor authentication (OTP), email verification, and account management within the `forwardemail/forwardemail.net` repository. These changes involved modifications to the backend logic, including controllers and models, along with updates to frontend components, such as form validation and auto-submit functionality. The commits also touched on build processes and deployment configurations, contributing to a more robust and user-friendly email service.
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