Adam Shand
Software Developer And System Administrator
Paraparaumu, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorAdam Shand is a pragmatic software developer and system administrator with 10+ years running his own consultancy and decades managing large-scale Linux infrastructure, email systems, websites, and cloud services. He combines hands-on web app development (Svelte, React/NextJS) and containerized deployments with deep operational experience gained at Weta Digital where he helped design data centres, build resilient pipelines, and scale production to petabyte levels. Comfortable switching between coding, ops and leadership, he has led teams, hired extensively, overhauled workflows, and co-created a peer-led management course emphasizing empathy and nonviolent communication. Based in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, he helps small organisations get the most from open source and cloud tooling, and brings an unusual blend of infrastructure craftsmanship and human-centred facilitation to technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
213reputation
33kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (200)
autocomplete10
to-do10
openldap10
web-development10
steroids10
evernote10
uptime10
nodejs10
svelte10
webapp10
ldap10
monitor10
responsive10
realtime10
websocket10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
krakenfleet/sigmaker
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Groundtruth/upptime-status-page
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1839 pushes, 2 branches, 87 comments in 1 year 6 months
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