Shavonn Brown is an experienced engineering manager with 11 years building and leading full‑stack teams across media, insurance, and SaaS — now driving international engagement engineering at CNN. Comfortable shipping across Go, PHP/Laravel, TypeScript, React and React Native, she blends hands‑on development with people leadership to deliver customer‑facing products at scale. Her background includes lead and senior roles at WarnerMedia and Turner, where she worked on high‑traffic sports and entertainment properties, and later managed engineering at Biteable and Kin Insurance. Based in Marietta, GA, she pairs a formal IT degree with a practical mentor mindset (former Thinkful mentor), bringing both technical depth and a track record of coaching engineers into higher impact roles. An operator who still codes, she’s known for bridging legacy systems and modern stacks to accelerate product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Georgia Southern University
Peace Officer Standards Training, Law Enforcement, Peace Officer Standards Training, Law Enforcement at Clayton Regional Law Enforcement Academy
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Shavonn Brown - Engineering Manager, CNN International Engagement