Shaun Walker - Head Of Innovation

Shaun Walker

Head Of Innovation

Greater Brisbane Area Australia

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Shaun Walker is a seasoned software and web developer with 15 years’ experience and a demonstrated progression from hands-on engineering to strategic leadership as Head of Innovation at Sonic Healthcare. He blends full-stack development chops—React front-ends, back-end proxies and Dockerized services—with systems administration across Windows, Linux and macOS servers. Shaun has led product and platform architecture for clinical and practice-management systems, co-founded and built a successful appointment platform, and guided its acquisition into a listed company. An active open-source contributor, he improved device integrations (QNAP, pfSense) and UX components in a popular customizable homepage/dashboard project. Based in Greater Brisbane, he pairs pragmatic operational knowledge with a curiosity for device and API integrations that surfaces in both enterprise and personal projects.

14 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor Degree, Computing, Major: Human Interface Technology, Bachelor Degree, Computing, Major: Human Interface Technology at University of Tasmania

College, English, IT, Graphics Design, CAD, College, English, IT, Graphics Design, CAD at Don College

Diploma, Information Technology (Networking), Diploma, Information Technology (Networking) at TAFE

English

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (8)

javascript10

api10

apidoc10

react10

nodejs9

nextjs9

docker6

dockers6

Programming languages (11)

TypeScriptJavaShellCPugAstroJavaScriptPHP

Github contributions (5)

gethomepage/homepage

May 2023 - Sep 2023

A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:5 PRs, 11 comments in 3 months

Contributions summary:Shaun primarily contributed to adding and improving the QNAP and pfSense API widgets for the homepage application. They implemented new features, including fetching and displaying data from QNAP and pfSense devices, and addressed issues related to key expiration. The user also made updates to the codebase, including fixing linting issues and refactoring components. These changes involved modifications to both the front-end components (React) and the back-end proxy handlers.

apireacthighly-customizabledockercustomizable

theshaun/rails_panel

Jun 2016 - May 2023

Chrome extension for Rails development

Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months

railsrubyrails-developmentchromechrome-extension

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