Shawn Simon
Engineering Director at Instagram
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Simon is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building mobile and web products, currently heading the Edits organization at Instagram where he supports 70+ engineers to create a best-in-class video editor. He has deep hands-on roots across iOS, web tooling, and scalable mobile app development, and has driven 0→1 product launches that span GenAI, creative tools, and consumption experiences. As a former founder and co-CTO of startups and an educator for web and iOS courses, he blends product-minded engineering with mentoring and team development. Based in Old Toronto, Shawn is known for pairing pragmatic architecture with rapid iteration at scale and for enjoying conversations that help others grow in their careers. An uncommonly broad background—from mechatronics studies to leading large mobile creative teams—gives him a systems-level perspective on building delightful, high-performance user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Engineering Mechatronics Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's of Engineering Mechatronics Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at McMaster University
Github Skills (14)
middleware8
webpack8
blocked5
ad-manager3
react2
shopify2
mock-server2
tokenizer2
api-blueprint2
rxswift2
django2
adblock1
typeahead1
shopify-cli1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shawn-simon-developer/django-glinks
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:25 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
ad-managerinternaldjangoadblockblockers
shawn-simon-developer/ParticleStation
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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