Shawn Mcelroy
Software Engineer at Space Rock Media
Rocklin, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Mcelroy is a pragmatic Python software engineer with 12 years of experience building maintainable automation, data pipelines, and developer tooling that reduce operational friction across teams. He excels at refactoring legacy systems and implementing test-driven workflows (pytest, pydantic) to validate terabytes of field and financial data, delivering measurable savings in debugging and operations. Comfortable both in startups and enterprise contexts, Shawn has led projects that cut deployment costs via Docker automation and scaled analytics systems processing hundreds of millions of records. He’s passionate about teaching teammates and producing clear documentation so new engineers onboard quickly, and he’s actively experimenting with AI-assisted, agentic workflows (LangChain, n8n, Node-RED, Claude) to amplify developer productivity. Based in Rocklin, CA, he consults or joins full-time roles to translate messy processes into efficient, understandable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Design, Web Design at Art Institutes of SacramentoComputer Information Science, Computer Information Science at American River CollegeDigital Entertainment and Game Design, Digital Entertainment and Game Design at ITT Tech
English
Github Skills (200)
vim10
fuzzy-finder10
visual-studio10
command-line-tool10
unix10
minification10
api10
docker-toolbox10
user-experience10
zsh10
nim-language10
taskwarrior10
command-line10
python-bindings10
ripgrep10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
SpaceRockMedia/qmk_firmware
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:4 PRs, 44 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
SpaceRockMedia/zmk-config
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A zmk config optimized for the sofle keyboard
Contributions:146 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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