John Shearing
Online Teacher at Native79
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Shearing is an experienced online English teacher with nine years teaching conversational English to Korean students through Native79, now based in Quebec, Canada. He retired from active teaching but maintains a professional presence and portfolio at his GitHub Pages site. Comfortable working across time zones and cultural contexts, he brings patience, clear communication skills, and curriculum adaptability honed over a long remote-teaching career. His background suggests strong one-on-one instructional design and a knack for building rapport with diverse learners. Though not a traditional software engineer, his public GitHub site hints at ongoing engagement with tech or personal projects beyond the classroom. He blends practical language-teaching experience with a remote-first work ethic useful for tutoring, educational consulting, or edtech collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (49)
code-generator10
iota10
nodejs-framework10
json-database10
large-language-models10
text-database10
accounting-software10
metaprogramming10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
code-generation10
knowledge-graph10
luks10
hardware-wallet10
ethereum10
blockchain10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
johnshearing/PrivateKeyVault
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
Make Instructions: Airgapped raspberry pi computer for working with blockchains featuring LUKS full disk encryption and using qr-codes to pass encrypted files and offline transaction instructions across the airgap.
Contributions:636 commits, 563 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
encryptionluksqr-coderaspberry-piairgap
johnshearing/deep_avatar
Apr 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:189 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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