Shawn Wang

Ex-Amazonian and tech exec with proven experience leading teams, developing strategies, and managing budgets. Passionate about empowering business needs.

Shawn is an experienced technology executive with a proven track record in leading engineering teams, developing long-term technology strategies, and managing budgets. He excels at bringing business context to technology decisions and simplifying processes and technologies to produce robust, scalable, extensible, and cost-effective software architectures. With experience in both startup and enterprise worlds, Shawn balances industry best practices with startup agility.

His key differentiation points include his extensive hands-on experience with AWS, which surpasses the expertise of many contractors who only hold certifications. Shawn's passion for empowering fellow engineers with genuine care and empathy in their career growth and staying curious has led to a mission of always putting his name on the line hatching impactful projects.

As a CTO at EarnAha, Shawn cut the company’s AWS cost by 27% and increased service availability by 5% (438hrs/yr) by migrating a monolithic service to micro-service architecture. He also expedited the manual software release cycle with a custom-built CI/CD solution.

Shawn helps clients by bringing business context to technology decisions and influencing long-term technology strategy that empowers business needs. He also has a superpower of balancing industry best practices with startup agility.

Professionally, Shawn is passionate about cross-functional roles that reward strong ownership in increasingly large scopes. He believes this is the best reward for software engineers.

Professional Certifications: Ex-AWS: AWS Professional Solutions Architect, AWS Professional DevOps Engineer equivalent

Professional Accomplishments:

• Designed and shipped AWS Connect Optimization features
• Designed and shipped SaaS subscription feature of Education platform EarnAha
• Transformed EarnAha software release from manual approval to CI/CD/CD. Shortening deployment cycle from 2 weeks to under 2 hours
• Successfully cut company’s AWS cost by 27% and increased service availability by 5% (438hrs/yr) by migrating a monolithic service to micro-service architecture

Personally, Shawn enjoys spending time with his family and staying active by running and hiking. He also volunteers his time mentoring young engineers in his community.