Shawn Carr

Lead platform strategy, cloud infrastructure orchestration, and Node.js backend scalability.

• CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY: Primary technical authority for high-stakes initiatives, designing resilient, cloud-native architectures on AWS/GCP (Docker, Terraform), multi-tenant VPCs, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• HIGH-THROUGHPUT NODE.JS APIS: Lead development of concurrent backend systems using 13+ years of Node.js/TypeScript depth; profile and optimize event-loop delays, garbage collection, and memory leaks in production.
• SERVERLESS & EDGE ARCHITECTURE: Designed the zero-to-one MVP for RefiDesk (https://refidesk.com/) and other edge systems using Cloudflare Workers (a dozen micro-workers), Hono, Drizzle ORM, and Neon Postgres, delivering sub-50ms calculations with zero server overhead.
• EVENT-DRIVEN PIPELINES: Build asynchronous messaging queues using Cloudflare Queues, RabbitMQ, SQS, and Redis to handle high-frequency workflows and real-time microservices state synchronization.
• STANDARDS & MENTORSHIP: Drive engineering quality across teams by establishing RFC design reviews, automated security/vulnerability scans, and mentoring senior staff in distributed system patterns.
• AI-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT: Leverage modern LLMs (Claude, Gemini) and Copilot as coding assistants to accelerate technical planning, perform deep self-reviews, and validate architectural edge cases.
• CRISIS RESOLUTION & RESCUE: Serve as the final technical escalation point for critical production outages, diagnosing and correcting complex runtime errors and bottlenecks under strict SLAs.

Deep product ownership, $Billion+ FinTech systems engineering, and implementation of SOC2 compliance frameworks.

• FINTECH PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE: Architected refinancing and in-school loan origination platforms for a major FinTech lender processing billions of dollars; built secure credit bureau (Experian, Equifax) and payment gateway (ACH, Stripe) integrations.
• SOC2 COMPLIANCE & SECURITY: Led end-to-end design, policy drafting, and implementation of complete SOC2 Type II compliance frameworks, engineering automated security configurations, IAM access layers, and SIEM logging.
• RELATIONAL DATABASES & ETL: Designed and tuned high-concurrency PostgreSQL and MySQL database layers (indexing, connection pooling, replica routing) and built secure ETL data pipelines for complex financial migrations.
• CLOUDFLARE & AWS DEVOPS: Managed secure multi-cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure); built automated CI/CD networks (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins) to deploy and monitor hundreds of custom client platforms.
• STRATEGIC CONSULTING & LEADERSHIP: Partnered directly with client CEOs and CTOs to guide build-vs-buy software evaluations, audit infrastructure cost footprints, run technical due diligence, and keep team technical debt low.

Provided specialized software consulting at The Gleason Works, contributing to their high-scale Global Software Project and integrating complex legacy enterprise business logic.

• SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION: Refactored legacy system modules to improve calculation accuracy, reduce computational overhead, and streamline data sync pipelines across international database instances.

Managed full-stack development, server infrastructure, and database clusters for a fast-paced technology platform, focusing on high availability and database performance optimization.

• INFRASTRUCTURE VIRTUALIZATION: Led the migration from bare-metal servers to early cloud/virtualized environments, improving service recovery speeds and scaling API capacity to handle traffic spikes.

Directed all aspects of IT infrastructure, security protocols, and operational technology systems for a specialized financial/software reporting company.

• SYSTEM AUDITING & SECURITY: Established regular data backup schedules, disaster recovery blueprints, and firewalls to secure client financial reporting databases against vulnerability vectors.