Summary
Shorn Tolley is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, building and operating enterprise-grade applications and APIs across industries including airlines, banking, government and aged care. He combines deep Java and Spring back-end expertise with modern front-end work in TypeScript (React, Angular, Svelte) and hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, often owning end-to-end delivery from architecture through production support. Skilled in performance engineering (Gatling, JMeter) and identity/OAuth2 integrations, he has led teams and platform initiatives such as implementing the RAiD ISO 23527:2022 standard for ARDC. Shorn also maintains kopi.cloud, a practical email-forwarding and burner-address service that showcases his full-stack design and operational approach. Based in Queensland and an Australian citizen, he is currently focused on contract roles and prefers projects where he can both architect systems and ship customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Diploma of Business Computing, Associate Diploma of Business Computing at TAFE Queensland
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at James Cook University