Shawn Stratton
Sr. Software Engineer at Alaska Airlines
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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SeniorShawn Stratton is a senior software engineer and principal-level platform architect with 16 years of experience designing deterministic, GitOps-driven systems for multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and on-prem Kubernetes environments. He specializes in building developer platforms and operator-driven automation that enforce consistent deployment patterns, governance, and observability while eliminating implicit behavior that causes drift and instability. Shawn has driven large-scale platform transformations—defining architectural contracts, fleet management strategies, and infrastructure abstraction layers that boost developer velocity without sacrificing operational control. As founder of Rillan AI, he’s pioneering a local-first context control plane that treats LLMs as interchangeable compute while keeping high-quality, private project context portable and secure. His background spans hands-on SRE and platform roles at organizations like McGraw-Hill, DRUD, and Alaska Airlines, and he combines deep system-level thinking with an unusual focus on applying LLMs in constrained, system-aware ways rather than ad-hoc automation. Based in Greater St. Louis, he blends entrepreneurial product-building with rigorous platform engineering and open-source tooling.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (105)
mouse10
keyboard10
golang10
graph10
zend-framework10
docker10
ecosystem9
modular9
pdo9
cli9
controller9
terraform9
command-line-tool9
aws9
php9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mfacenet/crossplane
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
control-planemulticloudplane
webopninjas/docker-phinx
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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