Shawn Jones
Developer Relations Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Jones is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience bridging research and practical engineering across AI, web archiving, and developer tooling. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and spent a decade at Los Alamos National Laboratory advancing automatic summarization, web archive tooling, and multimedia/vision applications for scholarly and web collections. Shawn has a strong systems and scripting background—authoring Python libraries (memento_client, Hypercane), building web apps and browser extensions, and automating large-scale data processing—earned through roles from SPAWAR to academic projects. He mentors and leads technically complex efforts, securing grant funding and translating research into usable tools that archivists and researchers adopt. Based in Seattle, he now focuses on enabling developers on Google Cloud Platform while applying a researcher’s rigor to developer-facing solutions. A less obvious strength is his long track record of integrating archival and temporal reasoning into practical software, enabling reproducible access to time-sensitive web content.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Old Dominion University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (68)
clustering10
sampling10
filtering10
surrogate10
summarization10
embed10
digital-preservation10
decomposition10
oembed10
archived10
memento10
thumbnails10
traits10
twitter9
bengali9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mementoweb/mediawiki-memento-headers
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 6 pushes, 4 tags in 2 years 8 months
oduwsdl/MementoEmbed
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
A service that provides archive-aware oEmbed-compatible embeddable surrogates (social cards, thumbnails, etc.) for archived web pages (mementos).
Contributions:1 release, 546 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 8 months
surrogatesthumbnailsflaskdockersocial-cards
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