Summary
Shawn Borton is a Principal Web Developer with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining PHP-centric web platforms, currently supporting Drupal sites for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He blends front-end craftsmanship (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Twig) with back-end expertise in PHP, MySQL and Linux, and has led migrations to Drupal 8 and built Laravel/Angular solutions for client projects. Comfortable working directly with designers and project managers, he’s delivered everything from custom CMS integrations and landing pages to web-based order tracking systems. Shawn’s background includes steady freelance work for enterprise clients and a history of improving developer workflows and training teams on modern theming practices. Based in Sachse, Texas, he brings a pragmatic, long-term approach to maintaining large public-facing sites where reliability and content workflows matter as much as polished UI. An English BA by training, he pairs communication skills with technical depth to translate requirements into maintainable web systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at The University of Texas at Austin