Shon Urbas
CTO & Founder at Techstars
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShon Urbas is a seasoned CTO and founder with 14 years of hands-on SaaS and platform engineering experience, currently building Pandium to simplify integrations for software companies. He blends deep systems design—Kubernetes, Python, Go, React—with product and operational leadership proven at Handshake and in finance technology roles where he architected CDC pipelines, custom object frameworks, and a high-performance search redesign. A Techstars mentor, Shon pairs startup grit with enterprise delivery, moving from trading systems and back-office automation to cloud migrations and scalable integration platforms. He is an active backend contributor to open-source Python projects, focusing on robust error handling and configuration resilience, and prefers pragmatic, production-first solutions that balance developer ergonomics with security and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Trinity College-Hartford
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
e-mail10
keycloak10
json10
mailer10
python10
back-end-development10
python-requests10
emailjs10
http-request10
restful-api9
api-design9
rest-api9
configuration-management9
api-rest9
yaml7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thieman/dagobah
May 2014 - May 2014
Simple DAG-based job scheduler in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 issues in 9 days
Contributions summary:Shon focused on improving the email functionality within the DAG-based job scheduler. They addressed issues with authentication and user configuration, allowing for disabling email features. The user also worked on standardizing the configuration file and auto-generating secrets. Furthermore, they merged branches and fixed some logical conditions in the code.
pythondagschedulerjobjob-scheduler
marcospereirampj/python-keycloak
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Shon primarily focused on updating and maintaining the backend logic of the keycloak library. Their contributions involved modifying the `keycloak_admin.py` and `exceptions.py` files. They reverted changes to the payload and also introduced code to handle JSON decoding errors. Furthermore, the user merged external contributions and made adjustments to exception handling within the library.
keycloak
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