Shawn Stafford
R&D Pipeline Operations
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Stafford is a seasoned software engineer and R&D pipeline operations specialist with 25 years of hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure. Currently at SAS he architected production Kubernetes clusters, a Kafka backbone, and an OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana observability stack while automating integrations across Jenkins, Gerrit, GitLab, and Artifactory. His background spans Java development, Perl and shell scripting, system administration across Linux and UNIX flavors, and long-running ownership of large build systems and repositories. Shawn is comfortable across the full stack of developer tooling—from administering TeamCity and Nexus for thousands of users to creating custom Ant and Java utilities for deployment automation. He thrives in small, dynamic teams where attention to detail, clear communication, and self-direction turn complex operational challenges into repeatable processes. Notably, his career blends early application development and technical writing with later infrastructure leadership, giving him a rare perspective on both developer experience and production reliability.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (45)
code-review10
gerrit9
jfrog-xray9
java9
rest9
api8
plugin8
rest-client8
gitlab-api7
artifactory7
git7
jenkins-api-plugin7
gitlab7
on-the-fly7
java-api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sstafford/gerrit-rest-java-client
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
Java REST client for Gerrit Code Review
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
reviewrest-clientjava-restrestgerrit
sassoftware/kafka-authentication-plugin
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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