Shaun Smith
RTX Hunting And Some Mcp at llmindset.co.uk
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarShaun Smith is a seasoned technology leader and engineer with 17 years of experience blending hands-on software development, agile transformation, and product delivery across telecoms, media, finance and AI. Currently at Hugging Face and maintaining the Model Context Protocol, he builds native multimodal agents and tooling (fast-agent, mcp-hfspace, mcp-webcam) that bridge research and deployable agent infrastructure. As principal of llmindset.co.uk he drives open-source integrations and SDKs while advising large enterprises through his long-running consultancy and training practice. Shaun is an active open-source contributor with notable work on Snyk’s CLI—adding Ruby/Maven support and a basic language plugin system—showing deep familiarity with dependency tooling and cross-platform issues. He combines executive delivery experience (interim director roles at Three UK, MS Amlin and others) with practical engineering craftsmanship dating back to early system architecture roles. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who turns complex protocol and agent ideas into usable developer tools and production-ready systems.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
maven10
snyk10
vulnerabilities10
ruby10
testing9
security9
monitor9
pip8
cocoapods7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Nov 2016 - Nov 2020
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 128 commits, 155 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Shaun contributed features related to Ruby and Maven support, including enhancements for testing and monitoring functionalities. They addressed platform-specific path issues and improved the Maven execution testing process. Further contributions involved the addition of basic language plugin system, with the initial Python/PIP app support, as well as fixing issues related to dependency handling and pruning of dependencies.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
darscan/shallow-goof
May 2018 - Feb 2024
This is a shallow repo that contains a single vuln (for demo purposes)
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 9 months
vulnshallow
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