Shawn Rodgers

Software Engineer

shawn@bsx.sh

Experience

Gardener's Supply Company

Burlington, VT

Software Engineer

Apr 2024 - Present · 1 year 5 months

  • Implemented features and bug fixes across the web stack (React and .NET)
  • Led the redesign of the header & navigation
  • Transitioned the team from writing class components in JavaScript, to functional components in TypeScript, introducing type safety to the frontend
  • Led the upgrade from React 15 to 18, allowing us to use hooks, and benefit from the inherent performance gains of concurrent rendering

Software Engineer - Intern

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 months

  • Designed & developed a customer facing application using the MERN stack
  • Stored documents in Azure's Cosmos DB
  • Deployed the application as an Azure Web App

Projects

SYNQ

www.synq.cc

Sole Developer

May 2024 - Present · 1 year 4 months

A mobile app for users to modify, share, and listen to their audio files

  • Built with React Native & Expo
  • 1000+ downloads on the App Store
  • 50+ premium subscribers

QBE

www.qbe.sh

Sole Developer

Jun 2025 - Present · 3 months

An AI chat app built for the Web

  • v0 completed in 10 days for a hackathon hosted by t3.gg
  • Built with Next.js & Convex, deployed to Vercel
  • Leverages models from frontier providers such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic
  • Driven by an agent that can search the web, analyze files, retrieve weather data, and more

Education

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

Sep 2019 - Aug 2023 · 4 years

  • Awarded 1st Place in the Advanced Machine Learning bracket at the 2022 UVM CS Fair
  • Awarded 2nd Place in the Beginner Web Development bracket at the 2019 UVM CS Fair