Shawn Krisman
Co-Founder & CTO at foam
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Krisman is a hands-on engineering leader and co-founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building scalable web and payments systems from startups to large platforms. Based in Oakland, he led backend and full-stack work at Reddit, helped mature payments infrastructure at Patreon, and drove platform engineering as a Staff Software Engineer at Affirm. He combines product-facing delivery with deep technical chops—his open-source contributions include backend refactors to the historical reddit.com codebase, touching account flows, sitemaps, and frontend JS/CSS. As a founder at foam he now blends operator experience with entrepreneurial drive to ship new products. A UC Berkeley-trained bioengineering major by background, he brings a scientific problem-solving mindset to software architecture and systems design. Outside work he codes competitively and plays fighting games, a hobby that informs his fast iteration and tactical thinking.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bioengineering, Bioengineering at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (7)
sitemap10
python10
back-end-development10
reddit9
javascript8
xml7
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily worked on back-end improvements and refactoring within the reddit.com codebase. Their commits demonstrate changes to account deactivation, sitemap generation, and post-sharing features. They also made modifications to the front-end code, specifically javascript, as well as CSS related to closing components, demonstrating some full-stack experience.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
telaviv/player-rankings
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:117 commits, 107 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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