Shawn Smith
Director Of Enterprise Architecture at Cambia Health Solutions
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Smith is a Director of Enterprise Architecture in Portland with over 20 years in IT and 15+ years shaping enterprise architecture and product strategy. He excels at translating business needs into cost-effective, cloud-native solutions and has led middleware, EDI, and HIPAA-compliant integrations across healthcare ecosystems. A founder and product leader with startup and operational experience, he shortens revenue cycles by marrying consumer-facing product design with enterprise delivery. Recently he has contributed backend and ML engineering work to the open-source Continue AI code-assistant, integrating Amazon Bedrock models and streaming/tool-use features. Colleagues rely on his collaborative negotiation style to balance people, process, and technology while consistently presenting clear ROI to executive stakeholders. His blend of hands-on ML/cloud integration work and deep enterprise governance makes him comfortable both in strategic leadership and in the codebase.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, B.Sc at The University of British ColumbiaOkanagan College
Github Skills (12)
llm10
amazon-bedrock10
typescript10
typescripts10
aws10
ai10
typescript-types10
bitrock10
api-design7
apim7
api7
openai4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
continuedev/continue
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
⏩ Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains
Role in this project:
Backend & ML Engineer
Backend & ML EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 14 PRs, 46 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shawn's primary contributions revolve around integrating Amazon Bedrock models within the `continue` codebase. They introduced new model providers for Bedrock and BedrockImport, enabling the use of custom AI models. The commits involve implementing streaming functionality, tool use integration for Bedrock, and integrating Bedrock embeddings. They also fixed AWS profile loading issues and improved the system's compatibility.
aichatgptcopilotdeveloper-toolsintellij
chezsmithy/continue
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
⏩ Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains
Contributions:36 pushes, 10 branches in 7 months
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