Shawn Falkner-horine
Manager, Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer at Joyent
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Falkner-horine is a seasoned infrastructure and SRE leader with 12 years of experience driving resilient, cost-effective cloud and on-prem platforms and 18 years total as an SDE. Currently managing Infrastructure SRE at Joyent, he has a track record of founding and scaling Tools & Services organizations, designing on-prem Kubernetes across 15+ datacenters, and reducing on-call noise through early-warning canaries and automation. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Go, Ruby, Bash, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Elasticsearch) with servant leadership—hiring, process design, and career ladders—to make teams more sustainable and predictable. Comfortable in startup and mid-size environments, he connects long-term strategy to short-term tactics and is fluent at cross-team coordination and metrics-driven decision making. An active contributor to open-source testing tools, he improved EC2 VPC peering behavior in the widely used moto library, reflecting a practical focus on compatibility and testability. Based in Kirkland, WA, he pairs deep operational expertise with an emphasis on reducing toil and improving monitoring ROI.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Messiah University
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Github Skills (23)
ec10
boto10
python10
testing10
amazon-ec210
aws10
mysql9
ruby9
jinja29
sql9
php9
ruby-on-rails9
pdo9
aws-s37
amazon-s37
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on implementing and improving the EC2 functionalities within the `moto` library, specifically related to VPC peering connections, including creation, deletion, and status management. They added features to support the EC2 models, responses, and tests. The user's contributions also involved error handling and refining the response structures for greater AWS compatibility.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
DreadPirateShawn/vagrantfile-rails
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Vagrantfile (etc) for my Rails dev stack.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 1 month
vagrantdevrailsdockerruby
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