Shawn Gatchell
Senior Software Engineer at Public Library of Science
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Gatchell is a senior software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building pragmatic, harmonious web applications across healthcare, publishing, advertising, and consumer web platforms. He currently architects and ships production systems at the Public Library of Science, bringing a strong background in secure, HIPAA-compliant APIs and cloud migrations from his time at WellnessFX. Shawn’s career includes scaling high-traffic services and custom data pipelines—he implemented Elastic MapReduce jobs and large-scale Java MVC frameworks that powered millions of page views on minimal hardware. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, Java, and AWS ecosystems, he pairs hands-on implementation with test-driven and agile practices learned managing teams and legacy-modernization efforts. With a B.A. in Behavioral Biology, he brings a pragmatic, user-focused perspective to engineering problems and a knack for simplifying complex data flows into reliable, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (41)
single-sign-on10
saml10
identity10
open-source10
authentication10
cas10
fido10
java10
identity-provider10
aws10
authorization10
spring-boot10
jwt10
spring-cloud10
ldap-authentication10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sgatchell/cas-overlay-template
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
mavenapereo-casapereooverlayjava
sgatchell/shopper
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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