Shawn O'brien
Senior Software Engineer at Windstream
Vilonia, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn O'brien is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on telecom and transport engineering experience, now leading technical strategy and automation efforts at Windstream. He combines deep field knowledge of DWDM/SONET/transport systems and router/switch platforms with proven success improving processes, reducing costs, and driving robust provisioning and OSS integrations (notably Metasolv). Known for taking ownership from outage analysis to design correction, Shawn mentors teams, runs technical workshops, and builds tooling to streamline engineering workflows. He’s equally comfortable in the lab, on the CLI, and coordinating cross-functional delivery — a pragmatic problem-solver who has personally performed thousands of router disconnects and led critical network turn-ups. Based in Vilonia, Arkansas, he brings a rare blend of operational rigor, documentation discipline, and relentless curiosity for new technologies.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate, General Business, 3.41, Associate, General Business, 3.41 at Kansas City Community College
English
Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (4)
shawnob/CheckPoint
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:61 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
shawnob/MoveTheSquare
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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