Summary
Shane Holloway is a Principal Engineer with ~25 years in software product engineering, leadership, and architecture, currently leading platform work at The College Board from Colorado Springs. He combines entrepreneurial experience as a former CDO and CEO with deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, cryptography, dynamic languages, and meta-programming. Shane has led high-impact government digital service engagements at USDS, delivering discovery sprints and production code that informed federal policy and improved citizen services. At AWS he managed developer productivity tools used by tens of thousands, and at Encipher he defined and implemented most of the company’s patent-pending cryptography platform. Known for blending design-thinking and service design with rigorous engineering, he also brings practical ops and CI/CD experience across Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, and Earthly. Colleagues describe him as a technical coach who turns complex, mission-critical requirements into auditable, user-focused products.
19 years of coding experience