🐋Thomas Shaw 🐋

Staff Engineer on Build and Release Team, unannounced project, Scopely

Ireland

About

Driven by the Kaizen philosophy and one simple goal: simplify. Making a process complex is easy. Making it beautifully simple is the hard part. ​Founder, ShipItCon.com (Proudly driving a community conference about software delivery for 10 years) ​Patented Inventor (Co-inventor of US Patent 9,104,461 for hypervisor service migration at Oracle) ​Founder, Rita.ie ​Former Docker Captain ​Focused on systems engineering, developer experience, and elegant technical solutions.

Experience

  • Staff Engineer at Scopely
    Apr 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Staff Engineer on the Build and Release team at Scopely, working on a unannounced project. My role sits at the intersection of Developer Productivity, Release Engineering, Platform Enablement, CI/CD, and automation.

  • Founder and Organizer at ShipItCon
    Jan 2017 - Apr 2026 · 9 yrs 4 mos

    ShipItCon is a community driven, not-for-profit conference about Software Delivery. This year’s theme is resilience. Join us on Friday 2nd September 2022 to hear stories of outages, downtime, recovery and ways in which we can build resilient teams, infrastructure and organisations.

  • Principal Automation Engineer, Server at DIGIT Game Studios
    Sep 2019 - Apr 2025 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    Working on Star Trek Fleet Command. My role sits at the intersection of Developer Productivity, Release Engineering, Platform Enablement, CI/CD, and automation.

  • Founder at Rural Ireland Tech Advocates
    Apr 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    The purpose of Rural Ireland Tech Advocates is to create a community of advocates and a central resource for folks interested in living and working in rural Ireland.

  • Systems Engineer and D&I Team Member at Riot Games
    Apr 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos