Skyler Shaw
Software Engineer at Zapier
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSkyler Shaw is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from aerospace and data analytics into full‑stack development, now contributing at Zapier and through his consultancy JumpRun. He ships web and mobile products across Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, React, and Elixir/Phoenix, and has applied his skills to niche domains like AV1/H.26x video encoding and nonprofit/education projects. At Intercom he helped build and optimize the Messenger platform, A/B testing pipelines, and performance-critical APIs, showing a blend of product sensibility and systems thinking. Skyler thrives in collaborative, autonomous teams, favoring discovery and iterative problem solving over allegiance to any single technology. A lifelong maker, he brings a creative, hands-on approach rooted in early interests in building and tinkering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Candidate, Space Studies & Management, Masters of Science Candidate, Space Studies & Management at International Space UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor of Science, Aerospace Management, Economics, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Management, Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver
English, Italian, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (134)
sdk10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
skylerwshaw/awesome-ipsum
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A curated list of awesome lorem ipsum generators.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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skylerwshaw/skylerwshaw.github.io
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 1 day
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