Shawn Reuland
Sofware Engineer at UC San Diego Health
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Reuland is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and full-stack services across Java, Go, and JavaScript. He has driven backend and DevOps work on high-profile open-source projects like Stellar’s Go monorepo—improving Horizon reliability, Docker tooling, and SQL ingestion performance—and contributed critical fixes to the Java Stellar SDK. Shawn’s career spans healthcare genomics tools, blockchain platform services, IoT edge-to-cloud designs, and high-throughput streaming systems, showing a knack for pragmatic architecture and performance tuning. He regularly operates in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Postgres, BigQuery, S3/GCS) and applies rigorous engineering practices to mentoring and integration efforts. Known for blending deep systems expertise with thoughtful automation, he also focuses on leveraging AI effectively without introducing “slop.” Based in San Diego, he combines long-term enterprise experience with active open-source impact.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Business Administration/Economics, B.S., Business Administration/Economics at Illinois State University
Github Skills (16)
cryptocurrency10
stellar10
javas10
docker10
horizon10
go10
dockers10
blockchain10
java10
devops9
sdk9
postgresql9
databases8
database8
api-design7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lightsail-network/java-stellar-sdk
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
The Java Stellar SDK library provides APIs to build transactions and connect to Horizon and Soroban-RPC Server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 216 reviews, 66 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shawn contributed to the Java Stellar SDK library by fixing a bug related to null pointer exceptions in the ChangeTrustOperationResponse when handling liquidity pool trustlines. They also added support for liquidity pool shares in asset creation and deserialization processes. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue regarding null pointer exceptions in the AccountResponse balance related to Liquidity Pool IDs and streamlined asset creation for consistency across all asset types.
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stellar/go
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Stellar's public monorepo of go code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 1125 reviews, 123 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the Horizon service within the Stellar ecosystem, focusing on improving its functionality and reliability. Their work included enabling Docker tooling for updated Stellar Core artifacts, mapping client disconnects to appropriate HTTP status codes for metrics reporting, and adding code improvements in the transaction submission process (timeouts, client disconnects). Furthermore, the user's commits show expertise in database-related aspects, including SQL query optimization and adjustments to the ingestion process.
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