Shawn Busolits is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, data processing pipelines, and microservice architectures, currently ensuring production stability for Google’s education products. He has led teams of 4–10+ as a tech lead and manager, previously driving the CMS behind many flagship Google developer sites. A strong front-end contributor to high-profile open-source projects (AMP, Google IMA/Video.js, Google codelabs), he blends UI polish and analytics-minded engineering with infrastructure work like Bazel build integrations. Based in Philadelphia with a Drexel CS degree, Shawn’s background spans low-latency network tooling at a trading firm to developer-facing SDK support, giving him a rare mix of production reliability, developer empathy, and hands-on product troubleshooting.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Drexel University
Contributions:10 releases, 21 commits, 34 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the development of example applications for the Google IMA HTML5 SDK. Their work involved implementing and modifying JavaScript code across multiple files (ads.js, index.html, style.css) to showcase ad integration, including features like desktop autoplay, mobile skippable ads, and live stream prefetch functionality. The contributions focused on managing the ad display container, initializing the ads manager, and handling ad events such as loading, starting, completing, and errors.
Contributions:256 commits, 289 PRs, 228 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on updating and maintaining the user interface components of the Video.js IMA plugin. Their commits included modifications to example files (simple, advanced, etc.) to address issues like missing companion ads and ensuring proper ad display. They also adjusted event handling for mobile devices and improved the overall presentation and functionality of the ad UI elements, suggesting a strong emphasis on user experience and visual elements within the project.
videojswebrtcsdkvideoima-sdk
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Shawn Busolits - Senior Software Engineer at Google