Summary
Shawn Cothran is a Senior Product Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building responsive, mobile-first web applications using JavaScript and React. His career blends freelance client work, agency roles, and in-house engineering at companies like Lonely Planet, axialHealthcare, Ramsey Solutions, and RevSpring, giving him a practical sense for product-focused engineering. A bootcamp-trained front-end specialist who started tinkering with the web in the late ’90s, he excels at writing clean, reusable code and shipping accessible, cross-browser solutions. He’s as comfortable mentoring teammates and collaborating across disciplines as he is diving into build tooling and performance optimizations. Outside of work he brings leadership experience from youth ministry and even taught Lexus owners advanced in-car tech—evidence of his knack for simplifying complex systems for real users.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate III Discipleship, Certificate III Discipleship at Discipleship Training School - YWAM Newcastle
Certificate At Risk Children, Certificate At Risk Children at Children at Risk School - YWAM Tijuana Del Mar
Front End Engineering, Front End Engineering at The Iron Yard
Pastoral Ministry, Pastoral Ministry at L.I.F.E. Bible College
English, German, Spanish