Shawn Saffarshargh
Web Architect at Walmart Global Tech
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Saffarshargh is a Web Architect based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale web and video architectures for Walmart.com. He progressed from senior engineering roles to leading frontend and cross-platform video/ad tech initiatives—most notably introducing a unified Svelte Video Player across Walmart assets and in-store hardware. A pragmatic polyglot who favors Go and Node.js, Shawn blends systems-level thinking with hands-on backend work (including CLI and cross-platform fixes for the Nodal Node.js framework). He has led teams and product launches at Mixpanel and App Academy and co-founded a startup, bringing both managerial and entrepreneurial perspectives to platform engineering. Known for shipping pragmatic, production-ready solutions, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a focus on measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Taylor's University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
command-line-interface10
command-line10
nodejs10
cli10
postgresql9
multiplatform9
database-migrations9
cross-platform9
platform-independent9
database-migration9
javascript8
testing8
matter-js6
html6
google-text-to-speech6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keithwhor/nodal
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
API Services Made Easy With Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 9 PRs, 43 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Nodal framework, focusing on the CLI (Command Line Interface) aspect. Their work included implementing new CLI commands, such as `help`, `s`, and `task`, and modifying existing ones, such as `db:` commands. They also addressed platform-specific issues, improving the test suite's cross-platform compatibility by adapting database interaction commands for Windows environments. Furthermore, they restructured the CLI, introducing a Command class to streamline command handling.
apinode-jsapi-servicesnodejsapi-server
schahriar/blackwall
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:183 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 5 months
securitynodejsfirewall
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