Summary
Shawn Reisner is a product-obsessed Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience delivering full-stack, serverless, and microservice architectures for startups and enterprise teams. Based in Des Moines, he has led engineering efforts at BrandYourself and Reel, where he combined hands-on development with team mentoring, feature prioritization, and AWS cost optimization. His background spans Angular, React, Node, C#, and SQL Server, and he has a track record of rebuilding web apps and migrating monoliths to microservices. Shawn brings a pragmatic eye for developer tooling—he built a Chrome extension that he estimates saved his company over $25,000—and he contributes writing on engineering topics through ITNEXT. He blends product intuition with technical leadership to help teams ship customer-focused, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University
English