About

Shaun VanWeelden is a Director of Computer Vision Engagements & Field Engineering at Scale AI. He is a software engineering graduate from Iowa State University with over 6 years of relevant experience. Shaun is a bridge between engineers and everyone else and thrives in environments where soft skills are just as important as technical skills. He is an extreme power-user of products and loves to nerd out with APIs, Computer Vision, Salesforce, and all sorts of data. He genuinely enjoys managing and building teams and working with people from all backgrounds and experiences. Leveraging his technical experiences to improve processes and empower others is what gets him up in the morning. As the Director of Computer Vision Engagements and Field Engineering at Scale AI, Shaun is responsible for the outcomes of three amazing teams and 50+ amazing teammates. He has taken his experience learning every in and out of their labeling platform and customer use-cases in his first 3 years at Scale and now gets to apply that knowledge owning both the quality and operational delivery of all CV-related customers as well as the customer engineering firepower for the entire company. Shaun's Field Engineering team is responsible for unblocking all of Scale's enterprise customers technically, ensuring data can smoothly flow in and out of the Scale platform. Whether that's debugging 3d poses in lidar scenes or building an ingestion engine processing millions of e-commerce products per day, the Field Engineering team spans a huge breadth of skills and experiences. Developer Success was spun out of Field Engineering and is responsible for the technical success of all of their non-enterprise accounts, specializing in Scale's more, scalable and self-serve products. Their Computer Vision Engagement Management team is responsible for the overall end-to-end delivery of their annotated data. Shaun's past experiences include being the Head of Field Engineering and Manager, Field Engineering at Scale AI. As a Field Engineering team, their charter is to be the bridge between their customer's technical needs and what their product can do. Given Scale's business, this involves building high-volume data pipelines, doing image, LiDAR, and other data conversions, writing scripts, and troubleshooting API integrations. Shaun has also led many pre-sales technical engagements across the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies. Shaun's education history includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering from Iowa State University. His tech stack includes Computer Vision, AI, and Salesforce.