Shaun Smekel
Chief Executive Officer at Principle Dental Practice Management Software
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolShaun Smekel is a CEO and software engineer with 11 years of experience blending technical leadership, SMB sales, marketing and customer success to drive product-led growth. He leads two companies—Principle Dental Practice Management Software and Level Up—applying engineering rigor to business operations for a customer-centric approach across more than 70,000 users. Technically grounded in computer systems engineering, Shaun has hands-on DevOps experience contributing custom Dockerfile work to the OpenStack Kolla project, streamlining cloud service deployments like Swift, Keystone and MariaDB. He excels at translating low-level infrastructure changes into measurable business outcomes, and often bridges gaps between product, sales and engineering to accelerate adoption. Based in New South Wales, Australia, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a practical, deployment-focused engineering mindset.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Systems Engineering at University of Southern Queensland
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
containerization10
dockers10
openstack10
kol10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
k10
bash9
python8
yaml8
rpm6
fedora6
debian6
centos6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Shaun's contributions center around customizing Dockerfiles for various OpenStack services within the Kolla project. They focused on modifying base images, and installing necessary packages, and setting up configurations for services like Tempest, Swift (multiple components), Elasticsearch, Tgtd, Multipathd, Ironic (multiple components), MariaDB, RabbitMQ, and Keystone (including fernet token support). These customizations primarily involve adjusting package installations and service configurations within the Dockerfile templates to streamline deployment.
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principle-theorem/principle-bridge
Aug 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:19 releases, 10 tags in 2 years 6 months
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