Tony Shepherd
Senior Development Team Lead at Spanish Fork City
Spanish Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Shepherd is a seasoned software leader with 10 years of experience who currently serves as Senior Development Team Lead at Verisk Property Estimating Solutions and concurrently runs an AI-focused startup, Fire Rescue Forge. He blends hands-on engineering—PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, Docker—with people leadership, mentoring teams that consistently deliver with a 95% escaped-defect-free rate. Tony has deep incident leadership experience as an incident commander for Sev1/Sev2 events, driving root-cause remediation and systemic reliability improvements. He champions pragmatic adoption of AI-assisted development to boost velocity while maintaining engineering standards, and has translated LLMs into production orchestration for domain-specific workflows. Outside software, he applies operational discipline from his fire/EMS and National Guard service to high-stakes decision making and team readiness. Based in Spanish Fork, UT, he pairs a full-stack technical background with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for hiring and onboarding high-performing engineers.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at Brigham Young University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
115reputation
6kreached
6answers
9questions
Github Skills (24)
html6
codeigniter6
php6
angular-ui-router6
handsontable6
jquery6
ajax6
javascript6
cordova6
mysql6
android-application3
broker2
home-automation2
home-assistant2
android2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
atonyshepherd/django-DefectDojo
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
marcelstoer/nodemcu-custom-build
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 commits in 11 months
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