Shawn Bruce
Owner at 911 Tactical Medicine
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorShawn Bruce is a versatile systems engineer and owner with 12 years of experience specializing in pharmacy IT integrations, virtualization, and cross-platform infrastructure from SMBs to large enterprises. He has deep hands-on expertise with Framework LTC/ECM, DocuTrack/DeliveryTrack, and complex vendor interfaces, alongside strong Linux and Windows administration and hypervisor skills (Proxmox, VMware, Hyper-V). As a full‑stack contributor to the popular OctoPrint project, he has fixed UI and backend bugs and added features like gcode script variables and timelapse enhancements, demonstrating practical open-source impact. Currently running Utility Services while serving senior engineering and CTO roles, he blends technical troubleshooting with project onboarding and long-term operational ownership. Quietly resourceful, he excels at making disparate systems “just work,” often by understanding obscure line-of-business behaviors that other engineers miss.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
3d-printer10
javascript10
back-end-development10
python10
front-end-development9
css8
html8
git7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
OctoPrint/OctoPrint
Mar 2017 - Feb 2022
OctoPrint is the snappy web interface for your 3D printer!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 33 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the OctoPrint project. Their work involved modifying both the front-end (JavaScript, Jinja2 templates) and back-end (Python) components. They addressed issues related to UI behavior, terminal interaction, temperature controls, and plugin functionality, indicating a broad understanding of the project's architecture. They also implemented new features like gcode script variables and enhancements for the timelapse functionality.
raspberry-pioctoprintpythonweb-interface3d-printer
kantlivelong/OctoPrint-SmartPreheat
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 11 commits, 3 PRs in 9 months
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