Shane Akins
Senior Software Engineer at Douglas
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Akins is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with seven years of professional experience building polished front-end experiences using JavaScript, React, TypeScript and Node. He blends a designer’s eye—proven by extensive Adobe Creative Suite and presentation development work—with deep front-end engineering skills to deliver responsive web apps, banner campaigns and interactive experiences. Shane has moved between agency, product and freelance roles, shipping production features at companies like Thalia Digital Retail Solutions, Atom Learning and Douglas while freelancing as a creative technologist. He’s comfortable owning end-to-end delivery from visual comps and PowerPoint workflows to modular CSS and build tooling (Gulp, Sass) and version control best practices. Notably, his background in biochemistry and long history producing media-rich corporate presentations give him a rare mix of analytical rigor and visual communication strengths. Colleagues rely on him for creative problem solving that bridges design intent and maintainable front-end architecture.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biochemistry, B.S., Biochemistry at Binghamton UniversityRegis High School
Spanish, French, German, English
Github Skills (8)
stitches9
layout8
react7
component-library7
data-collection5
react-components4
ui-components4
design-tokens1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shaneakins/shaneakins.github.io
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
shaneakins/geojson
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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