Shaun O'connell
Senior Front-end Web Developer at tactile.co.za
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolShaun O'Connell is a Senior Front-end Web Developer with 13 years of professional experience and decades of hands-on web design, research, and accessibility work. He specializes in front-of-the-front-end engineering, design systems, and web platform technologies—advocating reliability, performance, inclusion, and measurable cost-savings through approaches like Web Components. Shaun has led technical efforts across startups, government and utility sectors (including a Design System consult for New Zealand Health and product work for Flick and Trade Me), and he pairs pragmatic engineering with interaction design and tutoring experience. He’s comfortable implementing pattern libraries at scale and has a track record of turning design systems into consistent, multi-app front-ends that reduce duplication and maintenance overhead. Notably, he has applied his skills in social-impact contexts—from tutoring web development to non‑technical students in Madagascar to building CMS themes for non-profits—demonstrating a mix of technical depth and real-world empathy.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Fundamentals, Computer Programming, Programming Fundamentals, Computer Programming at Van Zyl & PritchardMatric, Matric at Bryanston High School
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
476reputation
20kreached
10answers
5questions
Github Skills (111)
meta-tags10
favicon10
seo9
mechanism9
fig9
autocomplete9
eleventy9
chrome-extension9
caniuse9
middleman8
music8
browser8
nunjucks8
facebook8
chrome8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
onja-org/html-exercises
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 21 days
ndorfin/talks
Oct 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
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