Shawn Caeiro
Senior Software Engineer at Adyen
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Caeiro is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend platforms, most recently at Adyen after a decade driving platform and API improvements at Sprout Social. He has led small engineering teams and cross-functional projects that cut outages by 70% and reduced query latency by 37%, while architecting storage and connection frameworks for integrations at scale. Shawn specializes in backend systems, performance optimization, and improving developer experience through metrics, monitoring, and standardized APIs. He has a track record of turning complex features—like publishing microservices and bulk CSV ingestion—into reliable, production-ready services that increased throughput and reduced time-to-ship. A mentor and coach, he prioritizes onboarding and career growth for junior engineers alongside shipping high-quality software. Based in Chicago with a CS degree from Northwestern, he blends research-minded problem solving from earlier academic and data science roles with pragmatic production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (9)
sentiment5
twitter4
java-client4
sentiment-analysis4
java4
nsq4
voting4
messaging3
realtime3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shawncaeiro/tune_tracker
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
shawncaeiro/recipes
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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