Shawn Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at Boats Group
Aurora, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Ellis is a Senior Software Engineer and architect with 15 years of experience designing and delivering high-quality, scalable Java-based systems and platform components. He has led and mentored distributed teams in Chicago and India, driving measurable improvements such as reducing product installation from days to minutes and shrinking Docker images by over 1 GB to simplify customer deployments. Skilled across cloud and container technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), JVM ecosystems (WildFly, JBoss, Tomcat), and automation (Gradle, Jenkins, Selenium), he focuses on accelerating delivery and raising systemic quality through repeatable builds and extensive automated testing. Shawn has a track record of turning operational pain points into product wins—most notably enabling a $23M sale by implementing an MQ message-cloning API—and consistently streamlines release and deployment processes. Based in Aurora, Illinois, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership, making him a strong fit for teams seeking faster, more reliable software delivery.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Minnesota
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (32)
jline10
emacs-package10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
scheme10
elisp10
sdl9
console9
game-controller9
java9
emacs9
common-lisp9
mappings9
lisp9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emacsmirror/lognav-mode
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:22 commits in 4 years 5 months
ellisvelo/cl-sdl2
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
Common Lisp bindings for SDL2 using C2FFI.
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 2 years 4 months
lisp-interpreterlispsdl2common-lisp
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