John Shearer
Lead Software Engineer at Sqork
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Shearer is a multidisciplinary software leader and hands-on engineer with over a decade of industry experience and a 20-year technical pedigree spanning high-performance data processing, 3D graphics/geometry, and cloud architectures. Currently leading engineering at Foundry and serving as Technical Director at Sqork, he combines pragmatic R&D with product delivery—having shipped a cross-platform 3D printing planning engine used by thousands and driven UX-recognised products. He excels at building and mentoring diverse, high-performing teams, instituting DevOps-driven best practices, and translating research-grade algorithms into robust, production-ready systems. Comfortable at the intersection of academia and industry (PhD in Computing Science), he rapidly assimilates new domains and fosters inclusive, trust-based cultures that cultivate future leaders. Notably, his background includes empirical research, interactive systems and hands-on low-level engineering, giving him rare fluency from shader/geometry work to cloud-scale delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computing Science at Newcastle UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at University of York
Github Skills (167)
dataflow10
python10
automation10
infrastructure10
orchestration10
prefect10
pipeline10
observability10
data-science10
data-engineering9
linux9
snap9
pkg9
dremio9
refactor9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shearer12345/shearer12345.github.io
Sep 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years
shearer12345/graphics
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 comments, 10 issues in 8 years 10 months
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