Summary
Shaun 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 University
Computing (HNC with distinctions), Computing (HNC with distinctions) at Grimsby Institute of further education