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Hi, I'm
Chris Shaw
Founder of Shaw Capital. Voracious reader. Avid traveler. Active musician, volunteer, and gymnastics fan.
Music
Paris on fire
Shaw and Partners
We are a US-based company, but we live and work across Brazil and Ukraine. We help companies scale development capabilities by providing cost-effective, low-effort, high-quality, English-speaking development teams in nearshore locations and US / EU time zones.
Shaw Capital
Currently houses three software product assets and is looking for new projects.
Products
Timofi
Timofi lets you manage and automate all job application processing to save time on hiring the right candidates.
LoveTank
Love Tank helps you to speak your partner's love language, not yours. And most importantly, when they need you to.
MergeOps
The lowest cost enterprise-grade Kubernetes-as-a-service for dev environments on AWS.
Let's Party
Connect with your favorite gatekeepers to create your best memories in life.
Radio Engine
Audio engineer business platform for scheduling, contracts, file management, and payments.
Volunteering Experience
Co-founder / Member
San Francisco Evening Rotary Club
2012 - 2014
Camp Counselor, Web Developer, Marketing, Group Leader
RYLA District 5150
2013 - 2014
Volunteer
The Dreyfuss Initiative
2011
Member
New Generations Rotary of San Diego
2010 - 2011
Volunteer
Children's Mercy Hospital
2007 - 2008
Volunteer
National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association
2002 - 2003
Volunteer
Mental Health Association of America
1999
Projects
Florianópolis Style
Everything I would have liked to have known when visiting Florianópolis for the first time
Registered trademark for “Yeah” and filmed people across U.S. emoting positivity.
Created sound-body suit to help re-enforce physical behavior with sound for a blind and mentally challenged infant.
SF Evening Rotary (Co-founder)
Co-founded volunteer group to connect a younger generation to the aging Rotarians’ history of good works.
RYLA
Camp counselor, developed website, raffle campaign, and group leader between camps.
Interviews with homeless on Haigh in San Francisco
Countries visited
Quotes
0 OF 0"Perfection in utility, perfect consistency."- Lao Tzu
"The difference between good and excellent is detail."
"Music isn't handed down generation to generation, playing is."
"Art is like dinner. If you didn't make it you're missing out on the best part."
"Who am I to know myself?"
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."- Picasso
"Counter-intuitive is often confused with counter-intellectual"
"Desire is the shadow of love"
"And still, there is nobody that can guarantee me and convince me with 100% certainty that I shall not survive but end in the gas chamber... As long as I have no guarantee that I will have to die within the next days, I continue behaving and acting as if I would spare this fate."- Viktor Frankl
"May you never die until I kill you "- Humphrey Bogart
"A german joke is no laughing matter."- Mark Twain
"Intelligence is the speed with which you organize emotions."
"Sharing is reflecting back onto you."