Shawn Hooton
Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic
Powell, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Hooton is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience designing flexible, scalable systems across search, NLP, and big-data domains. Currently at Elastic, he blends deep technical expertise in Elasticsearch, semantic search, Python, Hadoop platforms, and cloud-native design with a proven track record in presales and solutions engineering from roles at Hortonworks, Pivotal, and Oracle. Known for translating business needs into pragmatic architectures, he pairs hands-on engineering with governance, mentoring, and security-conscious design. His background spans Unix/Linux operations to enterprise middleware and event-driven architectures, giving him uncommon breadth from infrastructure to application layer. Based in Powell, Ohio, he often bridges product strategy and customer outcomes, turning advanced research topics like NLP and semantic search into deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (29)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
kibana9
observability9
logstash9
elastic9
cpp8
orc8
heartbeat8
filebeat8
metricbeat7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rajeshbalamohan/hadoop-aws
Oct 2015 - Feb 2024
Hadoop aws with fixes for S3 access - Reduces the number of connections
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 5 months
hadoopfixesconnectionsaws
codingogre/gcp-to-fleet-sync
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 months
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