Shawn Vo
VP Of AI & Fintech Engineering at Truckstop.com
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Vo is a fintech and AI engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-availability platforms, founding and scaling Denim (acquired by Truckstop) and now leading AI & fintech engineering at Truckstop in New York. He architected and shipped the initial Elixir/Phoenix, event-sourced payments and risk platform that moved billions in volume, personally hiring 40+ engineers and driving 2–4x annual growth for six years. Shawn blends hands-on coding and system design with operator-level rigor—leading due diligence, integration, and distributed AI automation that cut operating expenses ~50% while onboarding 400× more clients. He has deep domain expertise in payments, factoring, credit models, and compliance, and a track record of raising capital and debt to scale mission-critical fintech infrastructure. A former Techstars founder and mentor with early experience automating financial operations in banking and healthcare, he combines startup grit with institutional discipline.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Advanced Studies Diploma, Advanced Studies Diploma at Chantilly High SchoolBachelor of Science with Distinction Entrepreneurship & Economics, Bachelor of Science with Distinction Entrepreneurship & Economics at University of Virginia
Vietnamese, Arabic, Spanish
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Github Skills (66)
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Github contributions (5)
theodorewahle/project-papaya
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 18 pushes in 1 day
voshawn/shawnvo
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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