# Shae Eastman

> Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shaeeastman

Garland L. Eastman is a strategic & technical leader with 10 years’ experience at Cisco Systems in software development, solutions engineering, and driving innovation, collaboration, continual process improvement.  He regularly leads technical projects—and is well-versed at both leading & contributing to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges driving developer and engineering productivity & velocity.

Garland is renowned for his creative vision: At Cisco, he designed & currently sustains an appliance within a black-box system checking the status of 100+ open-source services; he also built a mechanism to dynamically-discover firmware running on appliance running 36 servers, plus other projects.  Garland is also a well-regarded problem-solver, who thrives in shifting environments, handling nebulous problems, often with little direction.

Earlier, he earned an MS in Computer Science (Specialization: Computational Science & Engineering) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

His Signature Strengths Include: 

Technology Innovation
Strategic Vision
Optimizing Code

Ensuring Customer Success / Satisfaction
Partnering with Cross-Functional Teams
Analyzing / Decomposing Complex Software Systems

Leading Multiple Concurrent Projects
Test Automation
Refactoring Code

Versatile
Test-Driven Development
Building Tools & Testing Frameworks 

Programming: C / C++, Python, JavaScript
Scripting: Python, Shell

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Coinbase
Jan 2021 – Present
Bison trails 🦬

### SDE2 - Software/Systems Network Core @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer - Tetration Analytics @ Cisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tetration Analytics platform delivers visibility across everything in your data center in real time. It uses hardware and software sensors to give you behavior-based application insight with deep forensics. Get a highly secure and reliable zero-trust model. Dramatically simplify your operations. Migrate applications faster. Make changes intelligently.

### Customer Support Engineer III–Team Lead ♦ Strategic Vision ♦ Software Development ♦ Customer Success @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Garland was handpicked to participate in an Alpha project, Tetration Analytics, due to his performance & incubation of ACI.  

His Select Achievements Included: 

•	Served as early engineer, collaborating with Marketing, Engineering & Services to incubate, drive technology innovation. 



Technology Innovation
Strategic Vision
Optimizing Code

Customer Support
Agile Development 
Team Leader 

Early Engineer 
Startup Environments 
Entrepreneurial Spirit

### Customer Support Engineer I ♦ Strategic Vision ♦ Software Development ♦ Customer Success @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Joined Application Centric Infrastructure Solution team, inaugural engineer group supporting technology, after completing SAAP program.  Developed multiple applications, initiatives for customers, and internally. 


Technology Innovation
Strategic Vision
Optimizing Code

Application Development 
SAAP
Customer Relationship Management 

Leading Multiple Concurrent Projects
Test Automation
Rapid-Growth Environments

### Intern, Software Engineer ♦ Strategic Vision ♦ Software Development ♦ Image Database Development @ Pitney Bowes Software
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Albany, New York Area
Here, Garland updated a georeferenced raster handler in MapInfo Manager via multiresolution seamless image database (MrSID) SDK.

Technology Innovation
Development
Image Databases 

Optimizing Code
Application Development 
Geo-referencing

### Teaching Assistant in Electronic Instrumentation @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Here, Garland observed & graded undergraduates in labs, homework for application-oriented course for engineering & science majors.

### IT Intern ♦ Strategic Vision ♦ Software Development ♦ Building CRM Systems @ XL Group plc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Hartford, Connecticut Area
Helped deliver CRM solutions to grow business.  Reviewed, analyzed CRM systems; delivered to client-facing colleagues. 

Technology Innovation
Development
Customer Relationship Management 

Collaboration 
Optimizing Code
Application Development


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S) in Computer Science specializing in Computational Science and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shae-eastman-software-engineering

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Last updated: 2026-04-12