Richard Shea
Techology Director And Senior Consultant at The Cuba Group
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRichard Shea is a Technology Director and senior consultant with 11+ years of professional experience and a two-decade track record designing and delivering web applications, APIs and database-driven systems from Wellington, New Zealand. He blends hands-on Python (Flask, Django, Pandas), JavaScript (Ember, React, TypeScript) and C#/.NET development with architecture and delivery leadership for clients across Europe, Australia and New Zealand. His recent focus is on Distributed Identity and self-sovereign identity architectures, while continuing to drive practical business solutions that scale and perform using Oracle and Postgres. He co-organises a local React/TypeScript workshop, speaks at regional conferences, and advocates open source education through projects and contributions on GitHub/GitLab (@shearichard). Colleagues rely on his clear communication and distributed-team experience to turn complex domain requirements—like large-scale COVID-19 testing data pipelines—into robust, production systems.
11 years of coding experience
BEng (Hons), Microelectronics and Software Engineering, BEng (Hons), Microelectronics and Software Engineering at Newcastle University
Github Skills (161)
uport10
rapidapi10
javascript9
ssi9
identity9
switch9
emberjs9
verifiable-credentials9
addon9
decentralized-identifiers9
decentralized-identity9
versioning8
client-library8
markdown8
web-development8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shearichard/ftdraw
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
Using Python and Reportlab to draw relationship diagrams and output as PDF
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
diagramspythonpdfdrawreportlab
shearichard/django-react-todo-demo
Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Demonstration of using Django and, both, React and Next.js to make a Todo app
Contributions:2 PRs, 132 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
djangodjango-rest-frameworknextjsreact
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