Shawn Stern
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Stern is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing products and full‑stack web applications, currently driving the next generation of Twilio Docs using Next.js and MDX. He blends hands-on engineering with developer education, having previously created documentation, classes, and video content to help teams and external developers succeed. His background spans major enterprise engineering roles at Walmart, Kroger, Nike, and NWEA, plus embedded systems and automation work at Intel, giving him a rare mix of frontend polish and backend reliability. An active contributor to Twilio’s api-snippets repo, he standardizes cross-language examples and adds practical serverless and Go samples that make complex APIs easier to adopt. Known for rapidly refactoring legacy apps into maintainable React/Redux systems, he also brings a consulting mindset from his Percevault practice and training in Electrical Engineering and Technical Japanese.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Technical Japanese, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Technical Japanese at University of WashingtonGreen River CollegeFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (11)
twilio-api10
rest-api10
javascript10
serverless-functions10
webhooks10
expressjs9
php9
go9
redux-observable6
rxjs6
redux6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TwilioDevEd/api-snippets
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Code snippets for the Twilio API Documentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 39 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to the Twilio API snippets repository by implementing and updating code examples. Their work included updating PHP samples to newer versions, standardizing JavaScript code, and adding new examples for serverless cookie state management. They also refactored and updated Express.js examples and added new Go samples showcasing Twilio's messaging features, demonstrating a broad understanding of different languages and frameworks.
apitwilioapi-documentationsnippetstwilio-api
PurplePigeons/idicia
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:200 commits, 62 PRs, 97 pushes in 7 months
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