Shawn O'connor
Principal Containers Specialist, Global Financial Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShawn O'connor is a Principal Containers Specialist at AWS with 10+ years of experience architecting cloud, networking, and container platforms for large financial services customers. He combines deep engineering chops—from early network and datacenter roles to leading containerization strategy for EKS, ECS, Fargate and App Mesh—with a proven record of driving migrations that cut costs and dramatically sped developer productivity. At AWS he translates complex regulatory and operational requirements of global FSI clients into actionable technical strategy, partner programs, and hands-on enablement. Prior roles at Dell, Mirantis and NodePrime show a consistent focus on large-scale infrastructure, PKI-quality security, and pre-sales technical leadership that delivered multimillion-dollar outcomes. Based in London, he brings both sales-facing persuasion and rigorous systems engineering—an unusual blend that helps close the loop between business objectives and production-ready cloud architectures.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics at The University of Memphis
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
aws10
amazon9
monte-carlo8
amazon-ec28
simulations8
simulation7
trend7
amazon-web-services6
python6
spot-instances5
stream4
amazon-ecs3
aws-lambda3
terraform3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-archives/ec2-spot-montecarlo-workshop
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Material for re:Invent 2017 - CMP316 - Workshop: Hedge Your Own Funds: Run Monte Carlo Simulations on Amazon EC2 Spot Fleets
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 months
pythonamazon-ec2ec2workshopamazon
aws-samples/eks-workshop
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
AWS Workshop for Learning EKS
Contributions:65 commits, 31 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 9 months
workshopkuberneteseksaws
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