Veridi

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

NetterTech Events

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Commercial WordPress event and ticketing plugin suite, with WooCommerce integration, custom database schema, and 10,000+ tests. Submitted to the WordPress plugin directory.

Anaplan Design System

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Now

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Veridi is live in invite-only beta at app.veridi.org. NetterTech Events submitted to WordPress.org; awaiting review response.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Applied AI engineer and founder based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Co-founder of Veridi, founder of NetterTech, and frontend engineering lead at BI Worldwide. Twenty years of full-stack, design-systems, and accessibility depth across nonprofits, arts venues, agencies, and enterprise SaaS. See what I’m working on this month.

Timeline

Veridi, co-founder and principal engineer (2026-present). Agentic AI fact-checking methodology. Seven-agent pipeline on FastAPI and the Anthropic SDK, a public validation report covering 105 claims across four suites (96 pass, 1 partial, 0 fail on methodology validation), and a 1,582-line product specification including Brier calibration.
NetterTech, founder and principal engineer (2026-present). Commercial WordPress plugin suite gated by over 5,500 automated tests in the free core, over 10,000 across the suite, mutation-tested with Infection.
BI Worldwide, frontend engineering lead (2023-present). Employee-recognition platform in functional React and TypeScript. Ported class components, led frontend on a PWA wrapper that lets Fortune 500 field agents take key actions with spotty connectivity and sync asynchronously, and built gamification and presentation layers for incentive products. Currently in BIW’s internal AI engineering pilot. Co-chaired an Allyship employee resource group.
ButcherBox (via 4wrd Consulting), consulting senior frontend engineer (2023). React, TypeScript, and React Aria accessible (WCAG AA to AAA) component library buildout; made React Aria components typesafe for large-team use.
Anaplan Design System, frontend lead (2019-2022). The constant across 3.5 years as teammates left and joined, growing the system from SCSS variables and manually included components to a composable React component library and complete design-token layer, adopted across SaaS and web properties.
Nerdery, accessibility-first software engineer (2015-2019). WCAG AAA enhancements on high-profile client projects. React and vanilla-JS UI architecture. Forays into Vue, Angular, and web components. Managed client hosting on WPEngine, BlueHost, AWS, and GCP.
Clockwork Active Media, frontend developer (2014-2015). Accessible interfaces and theming for Fortune 500, nonprofit, and government clients on Drupal and a proprietary CMS. Led internal front-end standards documentation.
Windmill Design, frontend and full-stack developer (2014). WordPress themes and plugins, accessibility, broad device support.
The Nerdery (first stint), frontend developer (2011-2014). Responsive, accessible frontends across mobile, desktop, and niche device targets. Led agile teams. Served as embedded specialist for several client companies.
National Marrow Donor Program (Be The Match), web programmer (2004-2011). HIPAA- and ADA-compliant internal and public-facing systems for a nonprofit healthcare organization. Built a PGP-secured whistleblower system enabling anonymous misconduct reporting.

Since 2009, self-employment under Nettercap Productions has run alongside other work: accessible WordPress, OWASP-grounded audits, and event and ticketing work for arts, education, and cultural clients including Celtic Junction Arts Center, Center for Irish Music, and The Hope Survey, along with the occasional album design or print production job. Nettercap is currently the parent entity for NetterTech during pre-LLC formation.

Shawn McBurnie

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