Shawn Carr
Principal Software Architect at Sharp Notions, LLC
Village of Fairport, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Carr is a Principal Software Architect and founding principal with nearly 20 years of experience turning early-stage ideas into resilient, production-ready platforms. He focuses on zero-to-one infrastructure—designing Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform foundations and automated CI/CD pipelines—to ensure systems are engineered not to fail. Deeply experienced in high-performance backends, he leads development in Node.js while actively migrating performance-critical services to Go and Rust. Known for bridging business goals and technical execution, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic architecture and mentors senior teams on security and scalability. Based in Fairport, NY, he brings a practical, builder-first ethos and a track record of modernizing legacy systems across multi-cloud environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Information Technology, Bachelors of Science, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (168)
markdown10
pagespeed10
cloudflare-workers10
robot10
nginx10
vscode-plugin9
wordpress9
hapi9
lambda9
api9
netlify-functions9
cloudflare9
npm9
wpgraphql9
wordpress-plugin9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
shawncarr/derek
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
derek - a serverless :robot: to manage PRs and issues
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
statelessderekserverlessaws-lambdarobot
shawncarr/functions
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Playground repo for Netlify’s Lambda Functions
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
lambda-functionsserverlessaws-lambdanodejsaws
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