Shane Osbourne
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarShane Osbourne is a seasoned Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently contributing to privacy-focused products at DuckDuckGo. He blends front-end build tooling and full-stack development expertise—demonstrated by creating streamlined Jekyll/Gulp/SASS workflows and enhancing BrowserSync examples—with a strong emphasis on test automation and integration quality for browser extensions. Shane's work on the widely used DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension highlights his focus on reliability, covering storage, fingerprint defense, autofill detection, and Click-to-Load through robust automated tests. He’s the kind of engineer who quietly improves developer experience and release confidence—adding in-browser build notifications, refactoring build tasks, and updating dependencies to keep projects healthy and efficient. Based in the United States, he brings practical, hands-on contributions to both open-source ecosystems and product-grade software.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (24)
puppeteer10
javascript10
css10
sass10
gulp10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
browsersync10
integration-testing10
browser-extension9
webpack9
gruntjs9
webpacker9
nodejs9
g9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
shakyShane/jekyll-gulp-sass-browser-sync
Apr 2014 - Jan 2016
A starter project including full setup for Jekyll, GulpJS, SASS & BrowserSync
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily focused on enhancing the development workflow within the Jekyll project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on streamlining the build process by creating separate tasks for rebuilding Jekyll and improving browser synchronization. They also added in-browser notifications for build processes and SASS errors and updated dependencies to provide a better development experience.
browsersyncsassgulp-plugingulpjekyll
BrowserSync/recipes
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
Fully working project examples showing how to use BrowserSync in various ways.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 17 PRs, 89 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the BrowserSync Recipes repository by adding and updating examples demonstrating the use of BrowserSync with various technologies. Their work included integrating BrowserSync with Gulp, Grunt, Ruby Sass, Jade, Swig, Browserify, Webpack, and HTML injection techniques. The contributions also extended to fixing bugs, refactoring, and improving existing examples to showcase advanced configurations like server includes and history API integration.
browsersyncjavascript
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