Shawn Rice
Lead Software Engineer at Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Rice is a Lead Software Engineer and Research Software Engineer with over 16 years at Purdue University and more than 25 years of web development experience, uniquely blending graphic design, front-end, and server-side engineering for research and HPC communities. He builds and maintains web frameworks, CMSs, CI/CD pipelines, and accessibility standards while defining customer service processes, documentation, and software selection for scientific platforms. Shawn has led and re-architected services that provision and secure access to university compute clusters, supervised multi-disciplinary teams, and mentored junior developers and students. Known for translating complex research needs into extensible, configurable web systems, he also champions open-source engagement and community-facing work such as presentations and workshops. Based in West Lafayette, Indiana, he pairs an ongoing curiosity for emerging web technologies with formal training in computer graphics and a master’s in information technology.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Purdue University
English, German
Github Skills (42)
open-science10
reproducible-science10
allocation10
hpc-applications10
gateway10
science10
collaboration10
data-validation9
data-quality9
pii9
metadata9
php9
data-lineage9
metadata-management8
data-catalog8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hubzero/framework
Oct 2015 - Feb 2020
The HUBzero PHP Framework
Contributions:458 commits, 754 PRs, 313 pushes in 4 years 4 months
phpphp-frameworkframework
zooley/hubzero-cms
Jan 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:7 PRs, 198 pushes, 1185 branches in 7 years 8 months
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