Shaun Hare
Principal Developer at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
Greater Lincoln Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShaun Hare is a Principal Developer with 14+ years building and architecting large-scale web and mobile enterprise applications, currently leading delivery and architecture at the DVSA. He combines hands-on engineering in Typescript, PHP (Zend/Laravel), Java (Spring), Ruby and iOS with AWS-certified DevOps skills including Terraform/CDK and TDD-driven delivery. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and line manager, he has a track record of mentoring teams, setting technical direction and operating production systems with strong Linux/sysadmin and monitoring instincts. Shaun’s background spans academia and government, bringing disciplined SDLC practices to public-facing services used by large user bases. He’s also an active local tech community organiser (phpem, phpminds, DigitalLincoln, X-Gov), which reflects a passion for knowledge-sharing beyond the code.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
1st (hons), Animal Science, 1st (hons), Animal Science at Harper Adams UniversityComputing (HNC with distinctions), Computing (HNC with distinctions) at Grimsby Institute of further education
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Github Skills (137)
app-dev10
driver10
lambda-authorizer9
plates9
ai9
api9
rest-api9
image9
rsp9
php9
cicd9
website-performance9
aws-lambda9
vagrant8
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dvsa/hvt-email
Feb 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 2 months
dvsa/rsp-gov-notify
May 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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