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Shawn Petros

$ class = STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER
$ guild = PETROS INDUSTRIES
$ alignment = CHAOTIC GOOD

> It's dangerous to code alone.
> Let's build something.█

$ whoami

player_1.png
Shawn Petros
XP 12+ years
INT Philomath
CHA Mentor
WIS Dad Mode
about.sh

/**

Family man first. Engineer second. Perpetual student of everything in between. I'm a staff engineer who spent a decade building things at the intersection of people and technology — from AI-powered dealership tools at Cars.com to developer experience at Atlassian — and now I run Petros Industries, where I build AI tools and automation for businesses that need real engineering, not agency theater.

Structured creativity is my thing. Engineering rigor with an artist's finish. I spec systems the way other people sketch — obsessively, iteratively, and with too many sticky notes. MCP servers, agentic workflows, content pipelines, developer infrastructure — if it can be automated with taste, I'm building it.

When I'm not shipping, I'm gaming with my son (Zelda & Pokémon, always), wrenching on cars, or exploring how AI is reshaping the way we build software. I'm an 80s kid from California who recently fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting Japan, and still approaches every new thing with the wonder of a toddler discovering the world for the first time.

*/

location:

Los Angeles, CA

type:

INFP // Philomath

interests:

AI, Cars, Finance, Gaming

education:

BS MIS — UWM

$ cat quest_log.md

// career_arc.map(quest => quest.learned_something)

  1. 2014 COMPLETE

    Quest Accepted

    The Journey Begins @ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Earned a Bachelor's in Management Information Systems. Loaded the starter gear.

    XP: ████████████████ MAX
  2. 2016 COMPLETE

    The Insurance Dungeons

    Software Engineer @ Northwestern Mutual

    Built HTML-to-PDF composition engines in the financial services sector. Learned to navigate enterprise architecture labyrinths.

    XP: ████████████████ MAX
  3. 2020 COMPLETE

    The Insurance Gauntlet II

    Senior Software Engineer @ American Family Insurance

    Built an end-to-end pipeline for underwriters to compose customer letters — drag-and-drop UI, composition engine, the works. Full-stack React/Redux, Node, AWS Lambda, and CDK for infrastructure.

    XP: ████████████████ MAX
  4. 2022 COMPLETE

    The AI Awakening

    Senior Software Engineer @ Cars.com

    Led the charge on AI-powered dealership tools. Rewrote dealer conversation plugins with LLM integration when GPT-4 dropped. Turned a chatbot into a sales machine.

    XP: ████████████████ MAX
  5. 2025 COMPLETE

    The Dev Experience Arc

    Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian

    Built AI tooling and developer experience at Loom. Shipped agentic workflows, skills frameworks, and internal tools that made engineers faster.

    XP: ████████████████ MAX
  6. 2026 ACTIVE

    Going Solo

    Staff Engineer & Founder @ Petros Industries

    Went independent. Building AI operations infrastructure, content pipelines, and agentic systems for businesses that need real engineering. Shipping tools with taste, not decks with buzzwords.

    XP: ██████████░░░░░░ LVL UP

$ ls ~/active_quests

// side_projects.filter(p => p.passion === true)

open-brain/

Open Brain

LIVE

AI knowledge base with semantic search, visual dashboard, REST API, and MCP server. 88 tests. Auth via Clerk. Because one brain is not enough in the age of the centaur.

TypeScript Next.js MCP Semantic Search Clerk
> view_source_
content-pipeline/

Content Pipeline

LIVE

Automated content generation harness with voice synthesis, topic discovery, analytics harvesting, and scheduling. Productized for clients. The machine that feeds the machine.

Claude Code MCP Buffer API Python
intel-brief/

Intel Brief

LIVE

AI-powered competitive intelligence app with shareable client reports, operator notes, and context-aware polish. GTM research on autopilot.

Next.js AI/LLM TypeScript Vercel
hunnybadgr/

HunnyBadgr

IN DEV

A desktop productivity app that doesn't care about your excuses. 298 unit tests. 7 engines. A dodge button that literally runs away from your cursor.

Electron React Zustand Vite Framer Motion
> view_source_
mediascribe/

MediaScribe

LIVE

CLI pipeline tool for media processing with an MCP server bridge. Built to be piped, scripted, and abused by agents.

Python pytest MCP CLI
> view_source_
mealsgpt/

MealsGPT

IN DEV

AI-powered meal planning with personalized recipes and Instacart integration. Because decision fatigue at dinner time is real.

AI/LLM Instacart API Clerk TypeScript
> view_source_

$ cat inventory.yml

// Object.entries(skills).sort((a,b) => b.xp - a.xp)

artifacts.inv

◆ ARTIFACTS

Specializations

Agentic Engineering [Legendary]
MCP Architecture [Legendary]
Spec Engineering [Epic]
Content Pipelines [Epic]
Developer Experience [Legendary]
Mentoring [Legendary]
spells.inv

✦ SPELLS

Tools & Services

Claude Code [Legendary]
AI/LLM Integration [Legendary]
AWS [Legendary]
Vercel [Epic]
Git [Legendary]
CI/CD Pipelines [Epic]
weapons.inv

⚔ WEAPONS

Languages & Runtime

TypeScript [Legendary]
JavaScript [Legendary]
Python [Epic]
HTML/CSS [Legendary]
SQL [Epic]
Shell/Bash [Epic]
armor.inv

🛡 ARMOR

Frameworks & Libraries

React [Legendary]
Node.js [Legendary]
Next.js [Epic]
Astro [Epic]
Electron [Epic]
Tailwind CSS [Legendary]

SAVE POINT

// connection.open() — let's build something together

connect.sh
[ pi ]
Petros Industries ai tools & consulting
→ [ gh ]
GitHub where the code lives
→ [ in ]
LinkedIn the professional facade
→ [ @ ]
Email old school communication
→

built with astro, tailwind, and too much coffee

© 2026 shawn petros — all quests reserved

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