Shawn Marincas
Senior Backend Engineer at Leopard
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Marincas is a senior backend engineer based in New York with nearly two decades of professional experience building full-stack web applications, leading teams, and architecting business solutions across finance, automotive, live entertainment, logistics, academia, and healthcare. He combines hands-on backend work with front-end roots—having led UI architecture and full-stack projects—so he’s equally fluent designing APIs, data models, and user-facing experiences. Comfortable in diverse technology stacks and team sizes, he has a strong intuition for spotting practical, maintainable solutions under real-world constraints. Shawn has a history of founding and directing small development shops as well as shaping platform work for startups and established clients, which gives him an operator’s sense for delivery and client management. His unusual blend of formal systems science study and long-running product work helps him bridge rigorous thinking with pragmatic engineering choices. Currently focused on senior backend roles, he consistently favors clear, scalable architectures that accelerate teams and reduce technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Science at Portland State UniversityBE, Computer Engineering, History, BE, Computer Engineering, History at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (65)
playing10
google-api9
css9
vue9
nodejs9
mongodb9
client-library8
html8
sdk8
javascript8
react8
aws8
js-client8
aws-sdk8
vim7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Gooseus/gooseus.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:83 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
Gooseus/nimaws
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
An exploration in AWS SDK development with Nim
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 years
sdkaws-sdknimaws
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