Shon Vella
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Hammerspace
Brigham City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolShon Vella is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience and 12 years in senior engineering roles, specializing in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise identity and access management. He has led major technical transformations—from modernizing legacy desktop IDEs into scalable web applications to architecting RapidIdentity, a comprehensive IAM suite—and is fluent in microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, and security protocols like SAML, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect. Known for bridging deep systems-level coding (C/C++, Java) with modern platform engineering, he drives reliability, performance, and secure design across the stack. He mentors engineering teams, champions DevOps and CI/CD practices, and has a history of contributing to open-source projects and standards efforts dating back to Novell and the W3C. Based in Brigham City, Utah, he combines product-focused architecture work with pragmatic implementation, frequently turning complex identity challenges into maintainable, scalable solutions. An understated strength is his long continuity across technology waves—from early word processors and imaging systems to today's cloud-native platforms—bringing historical perspective to modern engineering tradeoffs.
12 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Live Oak High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (75)
virtual-file-system10
api-specification10
jcifs10
vfs10
amazon10
jsinterop10
xml10
cxf9
gwt9
rest9
api9
rhino9
swagger9
specification9
aws-s39
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IdentityAutomation/jcifs-idautopatch
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
http-librarypatchedsambajcifsjava
IdentityAutomation/jcifs-ng
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
A cleaned-up and improved version of the jCIFS library
Contributions:26 pushes, 9 branches, 8 tags in 3 years 11 months
improvedjcifs
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