Shawn Erquhart
FDE at Convex
United States
Summary
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RockstarShawn Erquhart is a seasoned front-end and full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience who now serves as an FDE at Convex, specializing in helping engineering teams thrive and scale. He blends hands-on implementation—particularly around static site generators, CMS integrations, and frontend UX—with leadership experience as an engineering manager at Netlify and Replicated. Shawn is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Gatsby and Decap CMS, where he’s shipped plugin integrations, webpack fixes, and editor/UI enhancements that improved build reliability and developer experience. Known as a “waymaker” and multiplier, he focuses on removing friction for teams while still diving into technical detail. A detail that’s not obvious from the title: his contributions often bridge tooling, config and UX, ensuring both developer workflows and end-user previews behave reliably.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
markdown10
javascript10
css10
styled-components10
ui-design10
webpack10
uid10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
html10
netlify-cms10
static-site-generation10
react10
gatsby10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
decaporg/decap-cms
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 998 commits, 1154 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the front-end development of a Git-based CMS for static site generators. They implemented and enhanced components, added features like a helper for preview templates, and introduced new features, such as supporting objects and new UI improvements to the markdown editor toolbar. Furthermore, the user added a styling toggle for preview and fixes to code blocks.
cmsreactstatic-sitenetlify-cmsnpm-package
netlify/staticgen
Jan 2017 - Feb 2020
StaticGen.com, A leaderboard of top open-source static site generators
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 242 PRs, 236 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on front-end development, particularly on the UI elements of the static site generator leaderboard. They added a "Deploy to Netlify" button, updated content, and migrated the project to React Static. Their work included fixing code highlighting, splitting out components, and making the site configurable. The user also updated content and fixed project page URL's.
leaderboardstatic-sitegeneratorsmarkdownstatic-site-generator
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