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About
Shaun Davis is a Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io, where he works on the control systems and placement logic for the Machines platform, managing capacity, reliability, and utilization across a globally distributed compute fleet. His experience includes distributed infrastructure systems, VM orchestration, resource scheduling, and fleet capacity management, along with building database-as-a-service platforms and operating distributed databases in production at organizations including Compose and IBM. He is a Y Combinator alum (S11).
Founder/Software Engineer at RentoboYC S11
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Shaun went through Y Combinator (Summer 2011) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Experience
- Fly.ioStaff Software Engineercurrent2022 — presentMadison, Wisconsin, United States
- Fly.ioSenior Software Engineer2021 — 2022
- Forward BJJCo-Founder / Ownercurrent2019 — presentMadison, Wisconsin, United States
- IBMSoftware Engineer - IBM Cloud2015 — 2021
- Compose, Inc.Full-Stack Engineer2012 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- Rentobo (Acquired by Gusto)Co-Founder / Software Engineer2011 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
- SibylusCo-Founder / Software Engineer2010 — 2011Palo Alto, California
- UW-Whitewater ResNETWeb Developer2008 — 2011
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Shaun Davis?
- Shaun Davis is a Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io, where he works on the control systems and placement logic for the Machines platform, managing capacity, reliability, and utilization across a globally distributed compute fleet. His experience includes distributed infrastructure systems, VM orchestration, resource scheduling, and fleet capacity management, along with building database-as-a-service platforms and operating distributed databases in production at organizations including Compose and IBM. He is a Y Combinator alum (S11).
- Where does Shaun Davis work?
- Shaun Davis is Founder/Software Engineer of Rentobo.
- What companies did Shaun Davis found?
- Shaun Davis founded Rentobo.
- Where did Shaun Davis go to school?
- Shaun Davis studied at Y Combinator (Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies); University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (B.S., Management of Computer Systems); Edgerton.
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