Shaun Yates
Senior Software Engineer at Bash
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolShaun Yates is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cape Town with eight years of experience building cloud-native systems and APIs, and six years since starting as an intern while completing an honours in Computer Science. He specializes in backend engineering, microservices, API design and system architecture, with practical experience in TypeScript, Golang and AWS across fintech and innovation platforms. Shaun has progressed through engineering roles at Advance.io, Luno and ITONICS before taking a senior role at Bash, demonstrating steady growth in ownership and system-level thinking. He enjoys solving hard technical problems and is drawn to innovative projects that push cloud and distributed design patterns. Outside work he prioritizes personal growth, fitness and close relationships—traits that inform a pragmatic, team-focused approach to shipping reliable software. An appetite for continuous learning means he often pairs hands-on coding with architecture-level decisions to scale services effectively.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Honours - BScHons Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Honours - BScHons Computer Science at University of Pretoria 
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Github Skills (6)
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Github contributions (3)
ShaunYates/office-space
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
BinaryNinjaz/COS301-Capstone
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
COS 301 Capstone Project
Contributions:246 commits, 26 PRs, 231 pushes in 6 months
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