Shane Battrick
AI Solutions Architect
30+ years architecting scalable solutions across finance, healthcare & security — from startup to $50B+ enterprise.
About
Building the Future, One System at a Time
Principal Software Architect and technology leader with over 30 years of professional experience designing scalable, performant and maintainable solutions for complex business problems. Expertise spans software architecture, artificial intelligence, and full-stack engineering across start-up ventures and established corporations in strictly regulated industries including finance, healthcare, and security. Managed application development teams from small groups to 100+ FTEs, coordinated offshore resources, and aided senior management through two IPOs.
30+ Years
Professional Experience
120+ FTEs
Largest Team Managed
$50B+
Assets Supported
CEH
Certified Ethical Hacker
Expertise
Technical Proficiency
A comprehensive toolkit honed over decades of hands-on engineering and architectural leadership.
AI & Machine Learning
Languages
Frontend
Backend
Cloud & DevOps
Data & Storage
Methodologies
Career
Professional Experience
A trajectory from hands-on engineering to enterprise architecture and IT leadership.
EZCORP
- Leading software architecture initiatives with a focus on AI-driven solutions and scalable system design
FastLeap Inc.
- Co-founded technology venture focused on innovative software solutions
Fugitt Investments
- Worked with multiple financial and healthcare clients in varying IT related capacities to recommend, and/or directly assist, in improving existing processes and systems
Aspire Ventures, LLC
- Provided senior technical architecture and venture architecture consulting for portfolio companies
Employer Direct Healthcare
- Responsible for all aspects of the software development lifecycle including the initial setup and configuration of DevOps (Azure) and architectural oversight
- Designed and built an Azure hosted healthcare management system to facilitate the operations of a fast-growing innovative healthcare business that provides cost-efficient solutions for large self-funded employers and their members
Santander Consumer USA
- Planned and led the pervasive system augmentation necessary to introduce leasing into the originations system for the Chrysler Capital partnership
- Designed the architecture and implemented a full end-to-end, telephony integrated, call center collection system
- Assisted in building, and leading, the Application Development team of 120 FTEs supporting $50B+ in loan assets
- Automated credit scoring, pricing and decisioning procedures facilitating 40,000 applications daily at 7 seconds per application
- Created a deployment system utilized by entire organization for software delivery
- Built core framework utilized by all in-house systems
- Responsible for 450+ application components/services
- Participated in multiple audits annually including SOX, SOC1, SOC2 and various regulatory audits
- Provided assistance to CIO during the 2014 Santander Consumer IPO
Compublox
- Led R&D efforts of computer scientists/mathematicians in building video processing and object recognition systems to improve performance of existing holographic neural network
- Worked directly with corporate/government R&D units (Bank of America, Chubb Security, Canadian Mint, Macy's) to experiment with biometric possibilities
Delano Technologies Inc.
- Ran team in creating configuration foundation utilized by numerous teams for Java version of award-winning e-business platform
- Devised technique for integrating Java extensions into MFC/COM-based e-business IDE
ExtendMedia
- Responsible for optimizing award winning video editing and broadcasting systems (WebTV)
- Designed and implemented a multitude of tools and systems for third-parties
Credentials
Education & Certifications
Education
McMaster University
Part-Time Studies
Hamilton, ON
Sep 2002 — Jul 2011
Programmer Analyst Diploma
CDI College of Business & Technology
Burnaby, BC / Hamilton, ON
Nov 1994 — Aug 1995
Certifications & Honors
Azure Fundamentals Certification
Microsoft
Oct 2020
Certified Secure Programmer .NET (ECSP .NET v8)
EC-Council
Jul 2017
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v8)
EC-Council
Dec 2016
Member of Mensa
Jun 2006
Contact
shane.battrick@gmail.com