Shane Blackett
Chief Technology Officer at Soul Machines
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Blackett is a CTO based in Auckland with over two decades of engineering and leadership experience and eight years in senior technology roles at Soul Machines, where he progressed from Senior Research Engineer to Chief Technology Officer. He brings deep technical expertise in medical software, computer visualization, mathematics, and continuum mechanics, blending research-driven problem solving with product-focused delivery. Shane has a strong academic foundation with engineering degrees from the University of Auckland and a long history of applied research and development spanning academia and industry. Known for translating complex simulation and visualization challenges into production systems, he excels at bridging research, algorithms, and scalable software teams. Quietly prolific behind the scenes, he has driven cross-disciplinary teams to ship innovative human-centric AI and visualization products.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Engineering, Masters Engineering at The University of Auckland
Github Skills (13)
visual-studio-extension10
cpp8
testing7
msbuild6
visual-studio5
gdscript4
hmac4
jwt3
security2
web-token2
json2
http1
godot1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Shane-SM/testMerge
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 reviews, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 days
Shane-SM/godot-engine.jwt
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
JSON Web Token library for Godot Engine written in GDScript
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
gdscriptgodotgodot-enginetokenjson-web-token
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