Applied AI · Frontend · Design systems
Shawn McBurnie
Applied AI engineer and founder. Agent systems, evaluation, and governance.
Co-founder of Veridi, founder of NetterTech, and principal engineer of both.
I · Flagships
Selected work
Three projects. One shipped, one submitted, one long-tended.
Veridi
An agentic fact-checking methodology and pipeline with four verification depth tiers, twenty-one domain specialists, twenty-five gaming countermeasure vectors, and Brier-scored calibration. Live in invite-only beta at app.veridi.org; corpus spans Veridi, Pragma, and Praxis.
Read the case study Founder · Principal engineerNetterTech Events
Commercial WordPress event and ticketing plugin suite, with WooCommerce integration, custom database schema, and 10,000+ tests. Submitted to the WordPress plugin directory.
Read the case study Frontend leadAnaplan Design System
Joined as the project transitioned from hope to funded initiative. Stayed 3.5 years as frontend lead (after the founding engineer moved on), growing the system from SCSS variables and manual components to composable React and complete design tokens. Spanned C-suite advocacy, designer partnership, engineering execution, and DevOps delivery.
Read the case studyII · Currently
Veridi is live in invite-only beta at app.veridi.org. NetterTech Events submitted to WordPress.org; awaiting review response.