Shawn Chapla
Software Engineering Team Lead at Garmin
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Chapla is a software engineering team lead at Garmin with a decade of professional experience focused on operating systems, systems programming, and algorithm design. He has shipped life-critical embedded systems for GPS mapping, routing, and two-way satellite communications and progressed through multiple engineering roles into technical leadership. A longtime Linux hacker and open-source advocate, he’s contributed performance and file-handling improvements to tools like the gpuvis GPU trace visualizer, adding zip extraction and Linux perf event support. His background blends hands-on systems expertise with strong engineering stewardship and a knack for simplifying complex I/O and tracing problems. Based in Portland, Maine, he pairs near‑lifelong coding experience with an uncommon academic foundation—a summa cum laude BA in English—bringing clear communication to technically demanding projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM)Bachelor of Arts - BA, English, 3.975 (summa cum laude), Bachelor of Arts - BA, English, 3.975 (summa cum laude) at University of Southern Maine
English, Japanese, French
Github Skills (13)
file-handling10
data-visualizations10
c1710
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
c1110
graphic10
wine10
gdi10
testing10
sdl7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mikesart/gpuvis
Jul 2021 - May 2022
GPU Trace Visualizer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shawn made significant contributions to improve the GPU Trace Visualizer's file handling and performance. They implemented features to extract and load files from zip archives, including error logging and handling. Further improvements included removing temporary files after use and simplifying the zip file extraction process. They also added support for displaying Linux perf events, including stack traces, on the CPU timeline, improving the visualization capabilities.
gputracevisualizer
shwnchpl/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:158 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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