Shaun Barratt
Senior Software Engineer at Self-employed
Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShaun Barratt is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD candidate specialising in computer vision for elite combat sports, with 11 years of experience building cloud-native solutions using TypeScript, Node.js, C#, Azure and Docker. He combines academic rigour from Sheffield Hallam University with hands-on product delivery—recently joining Seiko Sports Technology after a research-to-product trajectory that produced measurement systems for elite taekwondo. Shaun has contributed to open-source projects (notably extending node-steamcommunity with announcement management and improved HTTP handling) and runs a long-standing self-employed development practice, showing a blend of applied research and practical engineering. Comfortable across front-end frameworks like Vue and Svelte as well as back-end/cloud tooling, he often bridges prototype research and production deployments for sports measurement platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision in Elite Combat Sport, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision in Elite Combat Sport at Sheffield Hallam UniversityA-Level, Computer Science, Mathermatics and Physics, A-Level, Computer Science, Mathermatics and Physics at Thomas RotherhamGCSE, Mathematics, GCSE, Mathematics at St Pius X
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Github Skills (11)
nodejs10
javascript10
steam10
api-design9
error-handling9
html6
wordpress6
php6
dropdown-menu6
html-select6
localhost6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DoctorMcKay/node-steamcommunity
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Interact with various interfaces on Steam Community from Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `node-steamcommunity` library by adding features related to Steam group announcements. Their work involved implementing the ability to edit and delete announcements. They also added functionality to fetch all announcements and created an example demonstrating the use of the new features. Additionally, the user fixed HTTP error handling and addressed whitespace and tab inconsistencies.
node-jssteam-apijavascriptinteractsteambot
barratt/CR10S5-Configuration
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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