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Shawn SalatSoftware Engineer<Frontend, Backend, AI Systems>

Shawn Salat

I’m a T-shaped software engineer focused on React and React Native. My depth is in frontend architecture and product experience, and I’m comfortable working across APIs, data, and deployment when the work calls for it.

Outside work, I’m usually taking photos with my Sony A7 II, listening to music (), or playing video games.

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Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

Duckbill AI

September 2024 – July 2026

  • Led the migration of our calendaring and telephony platforms from Retool to a modern React monorepo, reaching feature parity plus new stakeholder requirements in two weeks and eliminating ~$75K/year in platform savings.
  • Designed an agentic development workflow spanning the legacy and new codebases, orchestrating collaborating coding agents to discover requirements, exchange context, and generate nearly the entire implementation.
  • Rebuilt and redesigned an outdated browser extension using WXT into a core agent workspace, architecting a background-service façade and idempotent messaging layer to synchronize task context, notes, activity telemetry, and API state across ephemeral side panels, tabs, and windows.
  • Pioneered and helped architect our generative UI system, evolving a text-only AI chat into a dynamic application surface where the model could invoke purpose-built interfaces through a custom DSL and tool calls.
  • Built the system's first and many subsequent AI-driven experiences—including interactive maps and directions, rich recommendation carousels, contextual forms, artifacts, and UI for human-in-the-loop actions across phone, email, and calendar.

React Native Engineer

Uniform Teeth / Impress

February 2022 – November 2022

  • Lead mobile app development efforts from design to release
  • Implement best practice engineering principles, greatly reducing engineering hours required for development
  • Serve as point of contact regarding mobile app development across departments
  • Interface with backend based on Go, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL

Senior Software Engineer

Trayt, Inc.

October 2018 – November 2021

  • Architect and engineer front end solutions from ground up for both mobile app (iOS and Android) and desktop using React, React-Native, Redux, Material UI
  • Deploy backend, desktop site, and mobile app using EC2, S3, and CloudFront
  • Integrate frontend with backend, which runs on Node/Express and AWS including DynamoDB and S3

Technical Support Analyst, Level 2

Pearson, Inc.

October 2011 – August 2014

  • Performed quality assurance testing on new programs, resulting in less congestion during high intensity busy testing periods
  • Created in-depth, comprehensive training plan for new hires, many of which were temporary and went on to be offered full time positions and still work there today
  • Created ticketing system, knowledge base, and timecard tracking applications using Service-Now
  • Often closed most work tickets on team, 2nd point of contact on problem calls

Account Executive

Yelp, Inc.

April 2016 – April 2017

  • Drove all local advertising efforts for Yelp in assigned territories.
  • Utilized Salesforce extensively, including creating filters and reports, and managing 50+ pipelines of accounts.
  • Continually demonstrated tenacity, self-improvement, and implementation of feedback

Core skills

Education

University of Iowa

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Music; minor in Psychology

August 2006 – May 2010

App Academy

Full Stack Engineering Bootcamp

April 2018 – July 2018