Jack Skinner
Conference Director at FrontGate
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJack Skinner is a versatile technology leader and founder with 12 years’ experience helping startups and scale-ups (5–30 people) turn product strategy into delivery excellence. As the founder of FrontGate.app and operator of CTOForHire, he specialises in APIs, B2B SaaS and the “glue” work that aligns engineering, product and commercial outcomes. He’s led developer and cloud advocacy programs at Microsoft, driven API/platform adoption at MYOB, and now directs PyCon AU’s volunteer-run conference and sponsorship strategy. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering, team coaching and commercial partnerships, Jack is known for saying yes to bold, practical ideas and finding ways to make them work. Based in Sydney, he combines community-first conference leadership with real-world delivery experience building API-driven products.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Enterprise Systems Development, Distinction, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Enterprise Systems Development, Distinction at University of Technology Sydney
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (171)
cms10
hugo10
content-management-system10
static-site-generator10
blog-engine10
go10
fastest10
api9
api-platform9
amazon-web-services9
wordpress-plugin9
postman9
aws-cloudformation9
vagrant8
audio8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
devjack/encrypted-content-encoding
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
An implementation of RFC8188 for PHP - Encrypted Content-Encoding
Contributions:34 commits, 10 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
encrypted-content-encodingphpencryptedencodingcontent-encoding
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