Shawn Hooper
Engineering & Security Lead at Actionable.co
Russell, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShawn Hooper is an engineering and security leader with over 15 years building user-focused, database-driven web and desktop applications and a decade-plus of leadership at Actionable.co. He blends hands-on Microsoft ASP.NET and SQL Server expertise with PHP and WordPress contributions, bridging legacy enterprise systems and modern web platforms. Bilingual in English and French, he champions Open Data initiatives across Canadian municipal and federal catalogs, turning public datasets into practical tools. His background spans founding small tech ventures to directing product, IT and security functions, giving him an operator’s perspective on product delivery, compliance and secure coding. Based in Russell, Ontario, he pairs conference speaking and open-source involvement with a practical focus on tooling that helps teams ship reliably.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Secure Coding in .NET: Developing Defensible Applications, Security, Secure Coding in .NET: Developing Defensible Applications, Security at SANS InstituteAlgonquin CollegeSt. Peter Catholic High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
570reputation
34kreached
17answers
9questions
Github Skills (200)
taxonomy10
php-fpm10
menu10
wordpress10
laravel10
wordpress-api10
wpml10
checksum10
laravel-testing10
entity10
cli10
integrity10
wp-cli10
meta10
post10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shawnhooper/gravity-forms-country-province-dropdown
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
Populates Gravity Forms dropdowns with country and province/state names
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 years 5 months
dropdownsgravityprovincegravity-forms
actionable-co/laravel-samlidp
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
Laravel SAML IdP
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
samllaravelidpsaml-idp
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