Shawn Sherwood
Sr. Solutions Architect at GitLab
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Sherwood is a senior solutions architect with 13 years of focused experience modernizing software delivery and cloud-native platforms, now driving practical SDLC evolution through Agentic AI at GitLab. His career spans product and hands-on roles at Yugabyte, VMware, Pivotal, and large enterprises like Kroger and Fifth Third Bank, blending platform architecture, data-aware distributed systems, and application modernization. Known for translating complex operational requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions, he routinely bridges developer experience, CI/CD, and database/distributed systems concerns. Based in Cincinnati, Shawn brings a long record of cross-industry impact and a penchant for turning architectural vision into auditable, production-ready practices.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Cincinnati
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
reference-application10
spring-data10
spring-security10
dockerfile10
rest-api10
cpp10
docker-compose10
bean-validation10
jackson10
sql10
jpa10
high-performance10
database10
java10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ssherwood/initomatic
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
ssherwood/spring-boot-jpa
Dec 2016 - Apr 2021
A Spring Boot microservices reference application using Spring Data JPA
Contributions:118 commits, 7 PRs, 119 pushes in 4 years 4 months
microservicespring-securityspringdata-jpaspring-data-jpa
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