Shawn McAllister

Shawn McAllister

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Product Officer

Shawn McAllister is responsible for the strategy and delivery of Solace’s event-driven integration and streaming platform: . He leads a team of incredibly talented engineers and architects in this endeavor Shawn has worked with many of our clients to help them adopt event-driven architecture and to learn first-hand their needs as input to the innovation built into Solace Platform. He has participated in the definition of various OASIS messaging protocol standards, including MQTT 3.1.1, MQTT 5.0, and AMQP1.0.

Before joining Solace, Shawn led software, hardware, and test engineering teams at Newbridge Networks (later Alcatel Canada), where he was responsible for developing features on ATM and Ethernet switches as well as the 7750 Multiservice IP Router. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, with majors in both Computer Science and Combinatorics/Optimization.

Introducing Solace Platform:
A New Name for a Unified Future

Products & TechnologyMay 14, 2025

PubSub+ is now Solace Platform—a name that reflects our evolution into a complete, intelligent foundation for real-time, event-driven integration.

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Recap of our February 2024 Product Update

Product UpdatesFebruary 8, 2024

This product updated covered: declarative configuration of Solace Event Brokers with IaC, ability to configure brokers with Solace Event Portal, and new connectors and connector management.

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Recap of December ’22 Solace Product Update: Distributed Tracing and More!

Product UpdatesDecember 16, 2022
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