Tom Shannon
Vice President Of Technology at Imerza
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Shannon is a Vice President of Technology and seasoned technical artist with over a decade of experience crafting photo-real interactive visualizations and real-time experiences using Unreal Engine (UDK/UE4) and traditional visualization toolchains. He blends hands-on mastery of Blueprints, Cascade, PBR materials, lighting and performance optimization with program-level leadership—having led education and training initiatives at Epic Games and guided product delivery at Imerza. Tom has a track record of building production pipelines, custom tools (MaxScript, PB_Tools) and large-scale simulations—from traffic and pedestrian modeling to massive, kilometer-spanning scenes—while mentoring teams to deliver high quality on tight schedules. He also contributes to open-source visualization work, improving front-end data visualizations for climate-focused projects like Cloud Carbon Footprint, reflecting an interest in impactful software beyond entertainment. Based in Fort Collins, he’s known for rapidly mastering new tools and turning unknown problems into polished, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Media Arts and Animation, Bachelor of Arts, Media Arts and Animation at Art Institute of Colorado
Github Skills (11)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
material-ui9
cloud-computing7
sustainability7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Cloud Carbon Footprint is a tool to estimate energy use (kilowatt-hours) and carbon emissions (metric tons CO2e) from public cloud usage
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the front-end user interface of the cloud carbon footprint dashboard. Their contributions included adding custom tooltips to display detailed data, refactoring estimation formulas, and implementing new charts, such as the emissions by region donut chart. They also addressed issues with the display of line charts when filters are applied, and improved code related to the visualization of the application.
climatepythonfootprintcloudemissions
tomshannon1/besopy
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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