Shelby Snead
Senior Software Engineer at Panorama Education
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShelby Snead is a Senior Software Engineer in Oakland with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems, spatial audio mobile apps, and reproducible infrastructure across startups and education tech. A trained linguist and computer scientist, Shelby specializes in language-centered projects—leading the DAILP Cherokee documentation effort and founding engineer work at Class Companion before its acquisition by Panorama Education. They bring a taste for functional programming, thoughtful UX through usability studies, and practical mentorship from roles guiding co-op students and cross-functional teams. Known for blending research-minded experimentation with production rigor, Shelby enjoys open-source tooling and quirky comforts like pies and muffins, hinting at a culture-forward approach to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Linguistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Linguistics at Northeastern University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
displays10
nix10
vim10
async-await10
nixos10
linux10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
audio10
emacs10
organizer10
geolocation10
music10
cli10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
loafofpiecrust/roundware-ios-framework-v2
Jan 2018 - Aug 2020
Roundware framework, updated for api v2 and re-built in Swift (as much as possible)
Contributions:82 PRs, 177 pushes, 77 branches in 2 years 7 months
roundwareapiupdatedswiftbuilt-in
loafofpiecrust/dotfiles
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:153 commits, 109 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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