Shawn O'neill
Co-Owner at Sanswork
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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RockstarShawn O'neill is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and hands-on CTO with nearly 25 years of software development and server operations experience, currently co-owning ItAllCounts.org and leading engineering at YellowCAKE MEDIA. He has deep expertise in adtech—affiliate, search, and lead generation—having architected systems that handled hundreds of millions of requests per day on minimal hardware. As a founder of Sanswork and former CTO at multiple startups, he blends strategic technical leadership with active coding and ops responsibilities. Shawn also enjoys the business side of startups and continuously broadens his skills in management, finance, HR, and marketing to better align technology with commercial goals. Based in Canberra, he’s recently been applying his scalable-systems know-how to help charities squeeze more value from online advertising, showing a move from pure adtech into mission-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
translation9
stripe-api9
elixir8
hex-package8
stripe8
hex8
elixir-programming-language7
defaults7
ecto6
period6
iphone6
mocking6
authorization6
phoenix-framework6
devise6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shawnonthenet/nvim-config
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
shawnonthenet/avoidit
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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