Shawn Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at Boats Group
Aurora, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Ellis is a Senior Software Engineer and architect with 15 years of experience designing and delivering high-quality, scalable Java-based systems and platform components. He has led and mentored distributed teams in Chicago and India, driving measurable improvements such as reducing product installation from days to minutes and shrinking Docker images by over 1 GB to simplify customer deployments. Skilled across cloud and container technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), JVM ecosystems (WildFly, JBoss, Tomcat), and automation (Gradle, Jenkins, Selenium), he focuses on accelerating delivery and raising systemic quality through repeatable builds and extensive automated testing. Shawn has a track record of turning operational pain points into product wins—most notably enabling a $23M sale by implementing an MQ message-cloning API—and consistently streamlines release and deployment processes. Based in Aurora, Illinois, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership, making him a strong fit for teams seeking faster, more reliable software delivery.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Minnesota
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (24)
jline10
emacs-package10
java10
cli10
console9
sdl9
game-controller9
common-lisp9
ffi-wrapper8
asdf7
lisp-interpreter6
clang6
operation6
database5
ffi5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emacsmirror/lognav-mode
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:22 commits in 4 years 5 months
ellisvelo/cl-sdl2-ttf
Jun 2020 - Sep 2024
A common lisp wrapper for SDL2_TTF used for loading fonts and creating text assets
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
common-lisp
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