# Shawn Rice

> Software Engineer and Ex-Founder

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shawnrice

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ashby
Jan 2024 – Present

### Co-Founder, Software Engineer @ Cobbler Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024
- Shipped a RAG chatbot to help FP&A chat with their financial data in March 2023 
- Mitigated attention problems with LLM agents
- Automatic ontology construction for knowledge graph generation to ground AI agents
- Architected and led React/TypeScript frontend for data and data visualization heavy product
- Wrote property-label graph data store for React to reduce data transfer objects
- Mentored other developers
- Filled in for product, design, customer success, etc...

Tech: TypeScript, C#,SQL, SCSS, React, Redux, NodeJS, .Net Core, Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, Qdrant

### Software Engineer @ Eave - Home Lending
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY
- Product Engineer focused on the frontend for a mortgage product
- Created a design system to ensure consistency across multiple web properties
- Wrote a form wizard library to increase developer velocity
- Mentored other engineers

Tech: TyperScript, Go, SQL, SCSS, React, Redux, NodeJS, PostgreSQL

### Senior Software Developer @ Time Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | New York
- Full stack software developer for the newsgroup
- Led re-architecture of a unified React frontend for TIME/Money/Fortune
- Mentored junior developers
- Hired and managed interns
- Also worked on TIME for Kids, Extra Crispy, Motto

Tech: JavaScript, NodeJS, PHP, SQL, SCSS, React, Redux, Wordpress, MySQL, Elasticsearch

### Communication Fellow @ Baruch College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Queens College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Adjunct Lecturer @ Hunter College
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Adjunct Lecturer @ Lehman College
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
Writing Instructor at Lehman College (CUNY)

### Writing Consultant @ University of Texas: Austin, Undergraduate Writing Center
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005
Individual writing help for students
Developed and directed an online writing handbook
Trained other consultants


## Education
### Ph.D. in English Literature
City University of New York Graduate Center

### BA Humanities/Philosophy in Rhetoric and Philosophy
The University of Texas at Austin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shawnpatrickrice

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Last updated: 2026-04-13