Shannon Skinner is a Cloud Architect with 25+ years in software development, architecture and leadership and 11 years of focused cloud and solutions experience. Based in Waikato, New Zealand, she has led scalable, fault-tolerant systems across industries from healthcare and utilities to global streaming platforms, often solving hard integration and privacy challenges for regulated environments. Shannon excels at scaling teams and processes through technology—favoring micro-frontends, self-service tooling and automation over headcount growth to meet surges in demand. She blends hands-on engineering (.NET, Azure, serverless, React) with pragmatic architecture, having shipped regional electronic health record integrations and high-volume VOD festival delivery pipelines. A committed mentor and incubator coach, she trades industry insight for exposure to cutting-edge projects like AI and motion-capture, and brings a knack for turning complex stakeholder landscapes into deliverable solutions. Quietly entrepreneurial, she has co-founded startups and built customer-facing SaaS with production-grade reconciliation and monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, with Excellence, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, with Excellence at Waikato Institute of Technology
Contributions:1 release, 96 commits, 8 pushes in 6 months
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