Shaun Whitely
Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolShaun Whitely is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience building reliable systems and a strong grounding in functional programming and systems engineering. He progressed from graduate roles to senior and staff positions at REA Group and Zendesk, blending backend engineering with DevOps-minded operational ownership. Comfortable across C#, JavaScript, SQL and functional paradigms, he focuses on designing maintainable, scalable services and improving developer experience. Known for pragmatic thinking, he pairs clean code discipline with usability awareness gained earlier in product-facing roles.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) at Swinburne University of Technology
English
Github Skills (12)
apply8
dotty6
buildkite6
scala5
shapeless4
docker-image3
cli2
aws-cloudformation2
api2
test-kitchen2
aws1
ruby1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shaun-whitely/intro-to-scala
Sep 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 1 month
shaun-whitely/java-free
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Free Monads Example in Java
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 months
javamonadsfree-monads
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