Summary
Paul Shipley is an experienced IT specialist and applications developer with over a decade delivering end-to-end solutions across telecommunications, insurance, manufacturing, retail and government. He moves comfortably between hands-on coding (Java, MEAN stack, PHP, Node, SQL/NoSQL), infrastructure (AWS Lightsail, EC2, Linux), and operational tooling—having implemented monitoring, reporting and automation that reduced costs and improved visibility. As a team leader and mentor he has led small developer teams, driven multiple concurrent projects, and migrated legacy systems to modern web platforms while preserving business continuity. He routinely combines pragmatic scripting, web services and DB work to solve integration and performance bottlenecks, and once saved a client from costly hardware purchases by replacing manual network audits with an automated SNMP-based system. Now running his own services business in Melbourne, he builds custom WordPress/WooCommerce sites, manages clients’ AWS servers and provides broader IT support. His career is marked by a steady focus on practical, cost-saving engineering and an appetite for learning new technologies as needs evolve.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, (Electrical) in Computers / Communications, Bachelor of Engineering, (Electrical) in Computers / Communications at Victoria University