Troy Shields
CTO at Brite
Kaysville, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTroy Shields is a seasoned software leader and current CTO with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across Go, C#, Java, Python, and JavaScript. He rose through engineering and technical leadership roles—shaping microservice migrations to Kubernetes, scaling messaging systems from thousands to hundreds of thousands of messages per day, and founding a GUI tool for gRPC interactions—to drive developer productivity and platform reliability. Troy blends day-to-day coding with people leadership, having coached backend engineers as a chapter lead and led cross-functional teams as a tech lead. He has a practical consulting background rebuilding cross-platform mobile apps and integrating with enterprise systems like Microsoft Dynamics, which honed his adaptability across stacks. Based in Kaysville, Utah, he treats side projects as learning labs, constantly experimenting with new technologies and developer tooling. His combination of operational experience, tooling-driven automation, and a masters in Management Information Systems makes him comfortable translating strategic vision into production software.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Management Information Systems, Master's degree Management Information Systems at Brigham Young University
Albanian
Stackoverflow
1,307reputation
975kreached
34answers
15questions
Github Skills (99)
go-language10
cloud-sql10
golang9
protobuf9
grpc9
google-cloud-platform9
gcp9
google-cloud9
proto9
microservices9
rpc9
go8
pair-programming7
cpp7
sql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
troylelandshields/daily-journal-ui
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
troylelandshields/airqualitycontrol
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Sends air quality updates to a slack channel
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 months
updatesslackairair-qualityquality
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