Shawn Neacy
@shawnneacy
Senior software engineer building reliable, scalable SaaS platforms with TypeScript, Go, and React.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience building and operating customer-facing SaaS platforms. I focus on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity—using TypeScript, JavaScript, Golang, and Node.js to deliver dependable systems at scale.
I’ve led high-impact migrations to React and NextJs with TypeScript, including architecting backend services in Node.js and Golang. On one core platform, I consolidated legacy endpoints into a single PostgreSQL-backed API, reducing API error rate by 47%, and optimized SQL queries to cut median transaction latency by 40%.
I build with modern CI/CD and infrastructure practices, implementing automated pipelines with Argo and Terraform while preserving rollback safety. I also improve operational excellence through observability (DataDog, New Relic, Amplitude, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), creating alerts and runbooks that reduced mean time to detect by 55% and mean time to repair by 30%.
I enjoy mentoring teams, standardizing architecture patterns, and partnering across engineering, product, and security to ship improvements safely and consistently. I bring strong cross-team skills—designing microservices, event-driven workflows, and cloud-native integrations on Google Cloud with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led migration of a core real-estate investor UI to React and Next.js with TypeScript, reducing perceived load time by 33% for 30,000 monthly active users. Architected Node.js/Golang backend and consolidated legacy endpoints into a single PostgreSQL-backed API, cutting API error rate by 47%, and improved deployment frequency 3x with Argo and Terraform while preserving rollback safety.
Designed and delivered a document management microservice in Node.js/Express with MongoDB, improving document retrieval speed by 60% across 5,000 offices. Built serverless ingestion pipelines on Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Storage for signed forms, scaling to 10k files/day with zero downtime and reducing frontend payloads 35% via GraphQL and REST endpoints.
Lead Engineer
Cantina
May 2021 - Dec 2021 (7 months)
Directed a client-facing redesign of a property management portal using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, increasing weekly active users by 41% during a pilot. Implemented SSR in Next.js to boost organic listing discovery by 27%, improved session failover by migrating sessions to Redis, and reduced login-related incidents by 73%.
Senior Engineer
Cantina
Dec 2017 - May 2021 (3 years 5 months)
Redesigned an agent onboarding flow with Angular and TypeScript, shortening onboarding time by 45% and increasing retention by 18%. Tuned PostgreSQL schemas and queries to cut report generation time from 90s to 18s, and enabled blue-green deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, reducing release risk by 67%.
Engineer
Cantina
May 2014 - Dec 2017 (3 years 7 months)
Developed interactive UI components in Vue.js and vanilla JavaScript, improving cross-browser UX consistency for agent dashboards. Built Node.js/Express REST APIs to serve monthly reports to 200+ brokerage clients, scaled to 10k requests/min, and reduced PostgreSQL time-series query costs by 48% through partitioning and indexing.
Software Engineer
Online Buddies, Inc.
Jun 2011 - May 2014 (2 years 11 months)
Authored backend services in Python and Node.js supporting social features, increasing daily active users by 28% over 12 months. Implemented PostgreSQL relational models and reporting queries for monthly analytics exports, and built REST APIs with OpenAPI documentation to shorten partner integration time by 40%.
Software Engineer
General Dynamics
Apr 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year 2 months)
Developed server-side components in JavaScript and legacy C to support defense telemetry ingestion at hundreds of messages/sec. Optimized PostgreSQL stored procedures and indexes to reduce nightly processing windows by 46%, and instituted health/log alert thresholds that decreased incident escalations by 33%, improving MTTR by 28% for common failure modes.
Software Engineering Intern
Bittware, Inc.
May 2009 - Dec 2009 (7 months)
Implemented Python prototype data collectors for FPGA telemetry and stored results in MongoDB for analysis. Built visualization scripts and test harnesses with JSON logs consumed by CI systems, improving debug speed by 60% and refactoring transformations to run 3x faster.
IT Intern
Skyworks Solutions
May 2008 - Aug 2008 (3 months)
Supported internal systems and assisted deployments by streamlining release candidate builds with Git and automated scripts. Configured monitoring checks and basic dashboards to reduce unnoticed outages by 21% and automated IT tasks with scripting, freeing 6 hours/week of systems administrator time.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of New Hampshire
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2005 - 2009
Earned a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2009.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
OpenAPI
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Storage
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
AWS CodePipeline
GitLab CI
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Node.js
Tailwind CSS
Google Analytics
Chrome DevTools
Redis
Terraform
Jira
Mocha
Chai
Vue.js
JavaScript
HTML5
JSON
Fastify
PagerDuty
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Windows
New Relic
Datadog
GraphQL
gRPC
Serverless
Google Cloud Functions
React Testing Library
TimescaleDB
SQL
Deno
Refine
Argo CD
Increase
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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