Shaun Bent
Engineering Manager at Spotify
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Bent is an experienced engineering manager and front-end specialist with 13 years building high-performance, scalable web platforms for organizations like Spotify and the BBC. He blends design sensibility with engineering rigor, having led redevelopment efforts for major live-event platforms that delivered significant performance gains and reusable front-end architecture across large estates. At Spotify he progressed from Senior UI Engineer to Engineering Manager, coaching teams and shaping delivery while staying hands-on with front-end development. Shaun has a track record of turning cross-discipline collaboration into measurable outcomes—introducing performance monitoring, open-source foundations, and frameworks used across multiple products. Based in Manchester, he combines practical leadership with a developer’s eye for maintainable, responsive UI systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing (Multimedia), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing (Multimedia) at University of Central LancashireBTEC National Diploma for ICT Practitioners, Information Technology, Distinction, Distinction, Distinction, BTEC National Diploma for ICT Practitioners, Information Technology, Distinction, Distinction, Distinction at Runshaw College
English
Github Skills (73)
npm-package10
design-tokens10
sass-variables10
build-system10
cross-platform10
static-site10
styles10
grid10
typography10
react10
javascript9
decap-cms9
gatsby9
cms9
netlify-cms9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/gs-sass-tools
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
A collection of Sass variables, functions and mixins, part of BBC Grandstand
Contributions:3 releases, 69 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
sasssass-variablesmixinscssbbc
bbc/gel-typography
Apr 2014 - Aug 2016
A flexible code implementation of the GEL Typography Guidelines
Contributions:3 releases, 210 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 4 months
code-implementationguidelinesgeltypographyflexible
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