Leif Shackelford
Engineering Manager at Metrc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Shackelford is an engineering manager based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading teams across fintech, hardware, and creative technology. Currently at Metrc, he blends rapid technical learning with a big-picture systems view to ship secure, scalable services using modern cloud-native tooling. Previously a CTO and founder at Chroma and Structure Sound, he drove full-stack architecture, continuous deployment, and the integration of hardware and software products. His background in classical and electronic music informs a rare mix of technical discipline and creative problem-solving—he’s equally comfortable designing audio systems or orchestrating Kubernetes deployments. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions, Leif brings entrepreneurial grit and cross-domain fluency to product and engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Classical / Electronic Music, Bachelor's degree Classical / Electronic Music at Oberlin College
German
Github Skills (69)
thundercore10
rest9
oauth9
typescript9
trie8
authentication8
cryptocurrency8
graphql8
ethereum8
cdn8
arweave8
vault7
full-stack7
go7
parsing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
1e1f/js-moss
Jun 2017 - Apr 2024
moss trie parsing rules ( javascript reference implementation )
Contributions:6 PRs, 139 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 10 months
javascriptparsingtrie
structuresound/tmake
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:118 commits, 13 PRs, 189 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cppcmakebuild-engine
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