Shane Robert
@shanerobert
Senior full-stack engineer building fast analytics and reporting experiences with React, Ruby on Rails, and Snowflake.
What I'm looking for
I build end-to-end analytics experiences that help teams move from data exploration to decisions faster. I’ve led cross-functional delivery of data visualization features using React and TypeScript, partnering closely with product and frontend teams to ship reliable improvements.
On the backend, I architect scalable services and automated reporting pipelines with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Snowflake. I focus on performance and cost: optimizing ETL and query patterns, reducing report generation latency, and improving operational reliability in high-throughput workloads.
Across recent projects, I’ve designed near-real-time data pipelines into Snowflake and implemented background processing with rate controls and Redis caching. I also build and refine API contracts—covering pagination semantics and end-to-end integration—to reduce bugs and accelerate feature delivery.
I’m at my best in startup environments where pace matters. I implement CI/CD on AWS, use container builds for deployment velocity, and bring strong engineering fundamentals like TDD, code review, and performance tuning—while mentoring others to raise team throughput.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Pellera Technologies
Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)
Led delivery of interactive data visualization features in the client app using React and TypeScript, increasing analyst engagement by 28% in three months. Built scalable Ruby on Rails reporting APIs and near-real-time Snowflake data pipelines, and improved deployment velocity with AWS CI/CD.
Full Stack Engineer
ClassWallet
May 2020 - Jan 2025 (4 years 8 months)
Owned end-to-end implementation of automated reporting tools using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and scheduled ETL jobs. Reduced nightly ETL runtime by 50% by refactoring queries and moving aggregated tables into Snowflake, while scaling backend capacity and improving self-serve report adoption.
Software Engineer
Progress
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020 (1 year 6 months)
Delivered backend API features in Ruby on Rails and integrated them with frontend teams using React to shorten feature delivery cycles by 30%. Optimized MySQL queries to reduce slow queries by 60%, built reporting endpoints and batch jobs for product analytics, and improved test/CI processes to reduce production regressions by 40%.
Junior Software Engineer
Modernize
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018 (10 months)
Contributed to customer-facing features in Ruby on Rails, implementing responsive pages and interactive elements. Optimized SQL queries and added server-side caching to reduce page render time by 25%, and built ETL scripts and ad-hoc reports to reduce manual report preparation time by 70%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Rice University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2014 - 2018
Earned a B.S. in Computer Science at Rice University from 2014 to 2018.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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