𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖜𝖓𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

Shawn K

🔬 Information Scientist

shawn@shawnfromportland.com

I'm an engineer and futurist currently located in New York state. I'm a lead web engineer at Frame VR since 2022, where we are bringing the metaverse directly to your browser instantly with no install.

Selected Brands

  • Nike Running
  • LG Electronics
  • REI
  • Panasonic
  • Carhartt
  • Stumptown Coffee
  • Traveloregon
  • Portland Timbers
  • The National Parks Service
  • Zumiez
  • Active
  • Salomon Snowboards
  • Hot Topic
  • 24 Hour Fitness
  • Copic Markers
  • Leupold Sporting Optics
  • Banfield Animal Hospitals
  • University of Oregon
  • State Farm

My Principles as a Technology Leader

  • 👉 To make sense out of chaos
  • 👉 To be results-based
  • 👉 To collaborate and delegate, not dictate
  • 👉 Project methodology IS the project
  • 👉 Automation is usually the right choice
  • 👉 Documentation is god
  • 👉 The product is only as good as your QA
  • 👉 Nobody works in isolation
  • 👉 No unecessary meetings

Bermeo Heights Express (5-star rated on the Oculus store ) is the first VR app I produced (first released in 2019). An immersive, introspective, and calming journey by rail. It's also available on the retired Google Daydream platform.

From 2020 to 2022 I was a Senior Engineer at cissdm.com where I developed sophisticated SD-WAN software that helps manage the network infrastructure of some of the most recognizable corporations at scale.

Before that, I operated my own successful engineering and consultation business for 7 years in Oregon, the Bay Area, and Southern California.

During this time I built a form-building e-signing app that continues to close thousands of real estate deals every day, as well an automated phone pre-screener system (IVR) that some of the biggest names in the clinical trials industry such as Pfizer continue to rely on to pre-screen thousands of patients into potentially life-saving clinical trials every month.

In 2008-2013 I worked as a back-end developer for a number start-ups, ad agencies, and eventually at high end web agencies in Portland, Oregon. During this time, I was one of the team of two back-end developers who brought the webby-award-honored official tourism site for my home state of Oregon, traveloregon.com. I oversaw countless deployments of production dot com websites for a laundry list of top recognizable brands.

I earned a Bachelors of Computer & Information Science from the University of Oregon in 2007.