Shane M.

Full-stack developer, contractor, and startup founder proficient in Go, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with over a decade of expertise.
Specializing in React, TypeScript, Go and associated technologies for more than six years.

shane@1li.dev linkedin.com/in/shane-sny Midlands, England, UK

Work Experience

One Little Indie Dev., Full Stack Developer — 2018-2024

  • Launched oyato cloud, a startup specializing in a cloud platform that automatically enhances SEO, accelerates loading times, and boosts search engine indexability for SPAs and websites.
  • Created an on-the-fly website prerenderer and optimizer using Go, Phaedra, TypeScript, and React.
  • Engineered a load-balancer system in Go and Phaedra.
  • Developed a Chrome browser automation system utilizing Go, TypeScript, and NodeJS.
  • Built an image optimization system using Go.
  • Developed an intelligent website/SEO optimization system employing Go, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
  • Maintain a network of Tor relays to champion online privacy.
  • Developed parsers for a SQL/dbt IDE startup, utilizing Electron, NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Redux, and other technologies, while enhancing the codebase and introducing best practices.
  • Designed and constructed a GMail extension for an enterprise seeking to provide incentives and benefits to its extensive employee base.
  • Designed logos and user interfaces using React and TypeScript for oyato cloud.
  • Engineered and orchestrated infrastructure for oyato cloud using Go, podman (Docker), and systemd.
  • Constructed a bespoke email server solution in Go.
  • Designed and built website and CMS using NextJS and Strapi
  • Created the experimental programming language Phaedra
  • Contributed to various Open Source projects in in Go and TypeScript
  • Maintained Open Source IDE/developer tools and extensions

Time Inc. (UK), Lead Front-End Developer — 2016-2017

  • Lead the front-end team that implemented a majour design refresh of LoveFashionSale, working closely with designers and stakeholders to relaunch the LoveFashionSales sales service with brand new web and email designs

LynkU, Full-stack Developer — 2010-2016

  • Built and maintained the sales alerts service LoveFashionSales using jQuery, React, TypeScript and PHP
  • Built and maintained scrapers for the LynkU search engine and internal tools with SQL, PHP and Go
  • Built responsive email generator working across various mobile, web and desktop email clients
  • Built bespoke sales alerts system that searched hundreds of thousands of products across hundreds of retailers every day to find sales matching users' preferences
  • Built web crawler and security scanner in Go

Education

Computer Science, London Metropolitan University — 2007-2010

Projects

SrcVox

Companion app for Valve's Source Engine based games with voice clips and text-to-speech [playback build-in server browser

Piper

Package/library providing an embedded distribution of the Piper Text-To-Speech system for Go

oyato cloud

Spearheaded the creation of oyato cloud, an innovative startup that optimizes SPAs and websites for enhanced SEO, quicker load times, and better search engine indexing.

GoSublime

Developed and successfully introduced margo & GoSublime, an impactful Open Source project offering a Go IDE extension for Sublime Text

Skills

Programming — 10+ years

Go/Golang — 10+ years, TypeScript — 8+ years, JavaScript — 10+ years, Python — 8+ years, PHP — 10+ years, C/C++ — 1+ year

Web/App development — 10+ years

React, Redux, Next, etc. — 9+ years, HTML, CSS — 10+ years, esbuild, Vite, Webpack, Babel, etc. — 8+ years, Styled-Components, Emotion — 8+ years, React Native — 1+ year

DevOps — 10+ years

(Arch) Linux — 10+ years, Podman, Docker — 8+ years, systemd — 9+ years, SQLite — 10+ years, MySQL — 10+ years, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB — 4+ years

Web design — 10+ years

Figma — 1+ year, Affinity Designer — 1+ year, Inkscape — 10+ years, G.I.M.P — 10+ years