Shayne Sweeney
ChatGPT
New York, New York, United States
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RockstarShayne Sweeney is a veteran software leader and entrepreneur with 17 years building consumer-scale products and developer tools, currently at OpenAI after founding startups and leading product at Tailscale. As a founding engineer at Instagram he shipped the early mobile apps and scaled backend systems to hundreds of millions of users, later leading mobile and creative engineering at Meta. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps chops (notably improving WSL2 host tooling and contributing key local API and serve config work at Tailscale) with product strategy experience as a former VP of Product. Shayne has a track record of founding and operating companies—from SaaS and real-time search to a neighborhood coffee shop—bringing pragmatic ownership and customer focus to technical decisions. He’s an active open-source contributor across Ruby and Go ecosystems, with meaningful maintenance work on Instagram’s official Ruby gem and infra-level improvements at Tailscale. Based in New York, he blends deep systems engineering with product leadership and an unusual willingness to roll espresso shots when needed.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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vpn10
apidoc10
instagram-api10
wireguard10
ruby10
tailscale10
windows-service10
go10
api10
wsl210
oauth10
faraday9
json9
networking9
bash9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/instagram-ruby-gem
Feb 2011 - Mar 2013
The official gem for the Instagram API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Shayne significantly contributed to the development and maintenance of the Instagram Ruby Gem. Their work included adding new endpoints, such as `user_requested_by`, and related tests and fixtures. They also refactored and implemented OAuth2 middleware, ensuring proper credential handling for API requests. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, updated dependencies, and enhanced the gem with features like real-time subscription support and API improvements (e.g., "full_name" field).
apiinstagramgeminstagram-api
shayne/go-wsl2-host
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Automatically update your Windows hosts file with the WSL2 VM IP address
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Shayne primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a Windows service designed to update the hosts file with a WSL2 VM's IP address. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, adding support for multiple IP addresses, and improving IP discovery. They also made adjustments to the service's interaction with the Windows operating system, including service installation and management using the Go programming language. Furthermore, the user integrated features for adding aliases, improving reliability, and addressing reported issues.
wslwindows-serverhosts-filewindowshosts
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