Shawn Azar
Director Of Engineering, Foundation
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Azar is an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure and internal developer platforms, now directing Foundation Engineering at Strava across teams in San Francisco, Denver, and Berlin. He specializes in infrastructure, datastore and compute systems that power high-scale consumer experiences, with a strong track record of reducing cloud costs and improving operational reliability. As founder of High Country Codes he built CloudOps and Security as a Service offerings, routinely delivering measurable cost savings and cloud efficiency improvements for clients. Shawn combines hands-on technical depth (Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, multi-cloud migrations) with people leadership, mentoring engineers and enabling product velocity. His GitHub persona—“The Strong Arm” for high cloud costs—reflects a practical focus on optimization and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Based in Denver, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a history of transforming legacy stacks into cloud-native, cost-effective platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science And Electrical Engineering, Computer Science And Electrical Engineering at Saddleback College
German, English, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani
Github Skills (5)
science2
computer-science1
microsoft1
omniauth1
endpoints1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Saddleback-Computer-Science/ACM-Team
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
cydiasa/iracing-cleanup-setups
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 PRs, 23 pushes, 19 branches in 2 months
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