Summary
Shawn Rakowski is a product-minded senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web and backend systems across e-commerce and enterprise domains. He has deep C#/.NET expertise complemented by front-end work in Vue.js and TypeScript, plus experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, and SQL Server, and a track record of cost-saving platform migrations and reporting rebuilds. At TCGplayer he led a migration off Umbraco that cut hosting costs substantially while enabling new seller-facing features, and he’s comfortable moving between feature work, incident triage, and finance-facing data investigations. He’s taught application development and security topics as an adjunct instructor, showing a knack for translating complex technical concepts for learners. Based in Brainerd, MN, Shawn balances hands-on engineering with a pragmatic, user-focused approach and takes particular satisfaction from small product touches that meaningfully improve customers’ lives.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Brainerd High School
B.S./B.A, Computer Science, Philosophy, B.S./B.A, Computer Science, Philosophy at Bemidji State University
A.A., Liberal Arts, Computer Repair, A.A., Liberal Arts, Computer Repair at Central Lakes College