Summary
Shawn O'connor is an investor and seasoned technology executive with over two decades of experience building secure, software-driven businesses and guiding startups to profitable exits. He served as CTO and board member at Perceptyx, where he managed a $30M technology budget, led migrations to cloud-native microservices and Kubernetes, and steered international expansion and compliance programs including early US Privacy Shield certification. Earlier, as founder and CEO of Falcon Knight, he grew operations dramatically and positioned the business for acquisition, applying deep systems-administration expertise and forensic security skills. Based in Temecula, CA, he combines hands-on infrastructure knowledge—from BSD and SANs to Docker—with strategic planning informed by an MBA from UCLA Anderson. Notably, he has a track record of creating global engineering footprints and implementing rigorous audit-ready security and DR practices that enabled rapid, auditable scale.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at UCLA Anderson School of Management
Bachelor of Science Business, Bachelor of Science Business at University of Redlands