Shawn Neal
Principal Resident Engineer at Broadcom
Tacoma, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Neal is a Principal Resident Engineer with 14 years of software engineering experience and deep expertise operating and architecting 24x7 SaaS platforms, cloud-native systems, and Windows cloud integration. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—from game-engine C++ roots to modern microservices and CI/CD—with strategic customer-facing leadership at Broadcom and VMware. An active OSS contributor, Shawn has improved core projects like Vagrant and Packer and fixed security/serialization bugs in the widely used ServiceStack framework, demonstrating attention to both reliability and safety. He’s known internally as the de facto Windows cloud expert, having reverse-engineered PowerShell remoting, authored Windows stemcell hardening guides, and led major cloud migrations for public-sector applications. Based in Tacoma, Shawn pairs pragmatic troubleshooting with clear communication to guide engineering teams and customers through complex platform challenges.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bellevue College
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Github Skills (36)
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winrm10
windows10
app-framework10
vmware10
webservice10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
go10
virtualization10
powershell10
web-framework10
chef-solo10
automations10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vagrant
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:78 commits, 14 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the `hashicorp/vagrant` project by implementing and improving the Windows guest functionality. They focused on enhancing the WinRM communicator and file transfer capabilities, which involved addressing bugs related to file uploads, improving error handling, and integrating WinRM-FS. Furthermore, the user worked on refactoring code to improve DHCP detection for Windows guests and adding tests to ensure network configurations. They also streamlined Chef integration, and addressed issues with host renaming.
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ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the ServiceStack framework by addressing various aspects, including fixing XSS vulnerabilities within the HTML view and handling potential null reference exceptions during serialization. They also refactored code related to metadata generation and added functionality to incorporate WebHostUrl for correct base URLs. Additionally, the user made adjustments to string extension methods and implemented tests to validate their functionality.
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