Shannon Holgate
Co-Founder at Hypership
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShannon Holgate is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 11 years’ experience building high-output engineering teams and production-grade data solutions from Belfast. He has led addressability and audience engineering at Magnite and scaled data & analytics platforms for BT, combining hands-on big data engineering (Scala, Spark, Hadoop) with strategic product-driven leadership. Known for steering globally distributed teams, Shannon excels at turning complex technical challenges into clear, revenue-driving roadmaps that de-risk delivery and prove value quickly. His background spans low-level data infrastructure to executive strategy, and he brings a practical blend of technical depth and commercial focus rooted in a Computer Science with Finance degree. An uncommon strength is his track record of moving experimental data systems into reliable production at pace, consistently delivering measurable ROI.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
St Mary's Grammar School MagherafeltBsc, Computer Science with Finance (Financial Engineering), Bsc, Computer Science with Finance (Financial Engineering) at Ulster University
Github Skills (6)
avro3
scala2
sql2
spark2
dataframes2
spark-sql2
Github contributions (5)
KainosSoftwareLtd/spark-avro
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
avrodataframesavro-supportsqlspark-sql
ShannonHolgate/BuildASub
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 days
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