Shawn Hathaway
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolShawn Hathaway is a software engineer with six years of professional experience building backend systems and databases for large-scale services, currently based in the Greater Seattle Area and working at Microsoft. He has deep hands-on experience with database schema design and integration across Cassandra, MySQL, and Postgres, notably contributing to the widely used Temporal open-source project and its Go SDK. His background spans cloud and distributed-systems work at AWS and Temporal Technologies, with a proven track record of fixing runtime database-init bugs and improving observability through metrics. Shawn pairs practical engineering with systems-level thinking, often focusing on the persistence and metadata layers that keep workflows and clusters reliable. An early-career contributor to production systems, he blends enterprise experience with open-source impact—his GitHub tagline hints at a taste for classical flair.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of South FloridaAssociate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies at St. Petersburg College
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Github Skills (20)
postgresql10
cassandra10
mysql10
temporal10
workflow-engine10
schema-design10
go10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
golang10
schema10
grpc10
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
temporalio/temporal
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Temporal service
Role in this project:
Back-end & Database Engineer
Back-end & Database EngineerContributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 89 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily focused on database schema design and implementation for the Temporal service. Their work included creating and modifying database schemas for various data stores (Cassandra, MySQL, and Postgres), introducing new tables, and updating existing ones. They were also involved in integrating with the database layer and implementing functionalities to persist and manage metadata related to cluster membership and workflows. Furthermore, the user addressed runtime bugs associated with database initialization and ensured accurate data persistence.
service-busmicroservice-orchestrationworkflow-automationworkflow-enginedocker
temporalio/sdk-go
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Temporal Go SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the Go SDK for Temporal, focusing on implementing and updating core functionalities. Their work involved adding new interfaces for interacting with the Temporal service, integrating metrics for monitoring, and updating dependencies. The user also made changes related to error handling and refactored code related to gRPC dialer options.
golangworkflow-management-systemworkflow-enginesdktemporal
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