Shaun Parsons
Professor at University of Cape Town
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolShaun Parsons is a Professor of Taxation at the University of Cape Town, co-ordinating the Taxation section and research for the College of Accounting with nine years in academic roles and extensive prior professional experience at PwC. His research and PhD focus on the tax consequences of financial instruments and emerging technologies, notably providing a foundation for globally coordinated taxation of crypto-asset transactions. He leads professional programmes that prepare roughly 2,000 trainee chartered accountants annually and serves as Chair of the UCT Retirement Fund Board of Trustees. A general editor of multiple prescribed tax textbooks across South African universities, he combines practical rule-making influence with rigorous academic inquiry. Notably, he has bridged academic, regulatory and practitioner worlds by translating cutting-edge crypto-tax research into teaching and institutional governance.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Taxation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Taxation at University of Cape TownMaster of Philosophy (MPhil) Applied Theology, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Applied Theology at University of Pretoria
Afrikaans
Github Skills (92)
postgresql10
jsonb10
testing10
javascript10
sql10
json10
sqlite10
continuous-integration10
mysql10
mariadb10
oracle-db10
microsoft-sql-server10
nodejs10
orm10
aws10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ShaunParsons/dotfiles
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 31 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
ShaunParsons/sequelize-tenant-protection
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
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