William Shane Burrell · Technology Executive
Fix expensive, slow, or risky delivery systems
Twenty-five years building engineering teams, shipping products, and leading technology transformations—from founding companies to Fortune 500 scale. Today I help leaders tackle their hardest platform, cloud, and AI delivery challenges without sacrificing quality, security, or team trust.
Selective advisory on high-stakes platform, cloud, and AI adoption decisions—grounded in decades of hands-on engineering, product delivery, and executive leadership.
Apps & tools I've shipped
Hands-on product work from concept to App Store and beyond—plus developer tools I build and use daily.
Shanecode Tools
47+ browser-based developer tools for JSON, YAML, regex, DevOps, and more. Fast, private, and free.
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Modern cloud-native Git hosting with CI/CD, issues, and collaboration built in.
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RelaTrack
Enterprise relationship intelligence and network analysis platform.
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21+ Age Check ID Scanner
Fast 2D ID barcode scanner for age verification. Privacy-focused, no data storage.
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Field Contact Scanner
Scan and manage field contacts for law enforcement and public safety workflows.
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ClipNom
Lightweight clipboard history manager for Mac. In-memory only, privacy-first.
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Technology leadership and strategy from 25+ years in the field
The Day After Migration: Why Cloud Savings Disappear — and How to Keep Them
Cloud migrations win headlines, but savings often creep back within 18 months. How to institutionalize cost discipline, engineering guardrails, and reliability tradeoffs so your migration dividend actually sticks.
The Fractional CTO Playbook: When and How to Deploy Executive Leadership Without Full-Time Overhead
When fractional technical leadership makes sense, how to scope engagements for measurable impact, and frameworks for onboarding, leverage, and lasting value—drawn from 25+ years of software, product, and executive leadership.
Agent Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT: Why AI Adoption Needs Platform Engineering
Agentic AI is moving from pilots into production workflows, creating a new form of shadow IT. Technical leaders need platform engineering discipline to manage AI agents with governance, context standards, validation, observability, and cost control.