Jason Shackles
Sr. Network Administrator
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Shackles is a senior network administrator with 13+ years securing and running high-availability networks for public-sector and educational environments, currently ensuring 24/7 uptime for law enforcement systems in Clatsop County, Oregon. A pragmatic full-stack developer at heart, he created and maintained the popular Enhanced Steam browser extension (used by millions and featured on major tech sites) and built Idle Master to automate Steam trading card collection. He blends hands-on network architecture and server administration with front-end extension development, routinely shipping practical tools that improve user experience. Known for being helpful and courteous, Jason pairs deep operational reliability with a maker’s instinct for small, high-impact open-source projects.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Missouri State University
Github Skills (19)
steam-api10
apim10
debug10
develop10
web-application10
python10
api10
http-request10
application10
webscraping9
fileio9
file-access9
file-handling9
file-processing9
command-line-tool8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jshackles/idle_master
Jul 2014 - Jan 2018
Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 129 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason appears to have primarily contributed to the development of the "Idle Master" application, a tool for automating Steam trading card drops. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of the core functionality for interacting with the Steam platform, including the use of API calls and cookie management. The user fixed bugs, updated dependencies, and added features such as sorting methods, blacklisting, and language support.
steamworkssteam-apisteambottradingsource-engine
jshackles/RetroGOG
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
RetroArch integrations for GOG Galaxy 2.0
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
gog-galaxypartygogretroarchgalaxy
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