“In my time at Rocket Plan I worked closely with Shawn. I found him to be a great manager and an excellent communicator. Shawn's leadership skills were on display daily and I found his style and comportment as a leader was inspirational and allowed me to to my job in an effective way.”
About
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Some years ago, I was out skating with my oldest daughter, pushing her around during a public skate. And all I could hear was this crunch, crunch, crunch. It was so loud it was giving me a headache.
And at thirty years old, it was the first time I realized that crunching ice was the sound of hockey, the sport I’d been playing since I was twelve. You see, I’ve never worn my hearing aids while I play because they used to fail, so I didn’t recognize that crunching sound.
I would never have heard that sound while players approached me when I was on the boards, not even when I played for Team Canada on their gold medal-winning team.
Where some see a disability, this attribute has provided me with unique insights through my career as a developer, technical founder and executive.
While developing software and system architecture for web and mobile apps, I have come to understand the power of detail and clarity. These are embodied by my three core development principles: security, scalability and readability.
Every pixel matters. Every line of code must be written so that others can work with it seamlessly. The next team should be able to take it and build on it.
It must be clean, clear and secure.
In my world, these are the three pillars of development excellence.
Through my work in startups and as a hiring manager and tech executive at larger firms, I’ve seen how different people can help or hurt your efforts. The right developer in the right environment is worth 10x, but an exceptional developer in the wrong environment can kill your project. A great technical manager can raise a firm, and a weak one will drive it into silos and failure.
My mission is to develop great products and guide good developers to greatness.
As well as as the few startups I’ve been involved in, I also created one of the biggest developer communities on the web. Between Larachat and DevOpschat, I’ve brought together close to 50,000 developers on a couple of Slack channels.
These communities reside on my automated platform architecture and provide ways for developers to learn faster through direct interaction.
My current projects include the development of Canada’s innovation ecosystem with my founding partners at Unleashed Ventures.
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Mentor
Startup Weekend
- 2 years
Science and Technology
I had the opportunity to provide my own experiences working with startups and founding my own startup at the November 2017 startup weekend.
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Co-Organizer
Vancouver PHP Meetup
- Present 7 years 5 months
Science and Technology
Along with James Doyle, I started, organize and run the bi-monthly YVR PHP Meetup. This organization is an extension of my experience with Slack communities but in person.
The objective is to help developers accelerate their careers by speaking, helping them find jobs, provide advice and guidance.
My commitment to PHP has lead to numerous opportunities, including being invited to speak at the Wave PHP Conference in San Diego, and a feature in an upcoming book on the topic. -
General Manager
BC Rockies Deaf & Hard Of Hearing Hockey Program
- Present 18 years 1 month
Health
After my experience playing in the western hockey league for deaf people and representing Canada in Sweden in 2003, I decided to start a program based here in BC for those in BC that were deaf or hard of hearing.
We train and develop youth and adult hockey players of all genders and all skill levels. The program is a member of the British Columbia Deaf Sports Federation (BCDSF).
The development process of building out this program took several years, but we were able to win a…After my experience playing in the western hockey league for deaf people and representing Canada in Sweden in 2003, I decided to start a program based here in BC for those in BC that were deaf or hard of hearing.
We train and develop youth and adult hockey players of all genders and all skill levels. The program is a member of the British Columbia Deaf Sports Federation (BCDSF).
The development process of building out this program took several years, but we were able to win a silver and bronze in competition in 2017. The team was favoured to win gold in Edmonton in 2020, but due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, the tournament was cancelled.
The whole point of the program is to treat players like they are part of a professional organization to give them that unique and valuable experience.
Projects
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DevOps Chat
DevOps Chat is a global Slack community of Engineering professionals in the DevOps world. It is a growing community of thousands of people currently working or just starting out in the field.
If you are a DevOps engineer, web designer or just someone interested in learning more about deployment, integration, systems, automation or configuration management, to name a few, sign up for an account and join one( or all of the channels).Other creators -
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AndroidChat
Android Chat is a global Slack community of Android developers It is a growing community of thousand of people who are interested in Android development.
If you are an Android developer or just someone interested in learning more about Android and mobile development in general, sign up for an account and join one(or all of the channels).Other creators -
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LaraChat & DevOpsChat
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See projectBack when I was at 9 Shot Golf, we had started using a PHP framework called Laravel and began using Slack at the startup. So I decided to start a community on Slack to help me accelerate my development capabilities in Laravel.
It began with 200 members and grew from there. Based on that outcome, I set up four more around Angular, Android, jQuery and DevOps.
The power of the communities was the ability to get instant answers to your questions, even the dumb ones. Someone was…Back when I was at 9 Shot Golf, we had started using a PHP framework called Laravel and began using Slack at the startup. So I decided to start a community on Slack to help me accelerate my development capabilities in Laravel.
It began with 200 members and grew from there. Based on that outcome, I set up four more around Angular, Android, jQuery and DevOps.
The power of the communities was the ability to get instant answers to your questions, even the dumb ones. Someone was always there to help you or walk you through it. This approach was far superior to going to Google or wherever and looking up stuff, asking a question and maybe getting an answer. On Slack, it was immediate.
Then one day, I sent a message to Harper Reed, President Obama’s former CTO and asked him if he would share the group. I was surprised when he said yes! The group exploded from there. Then I got a shout out from the founder of O’Reilly books. Boom.
I developed a framework for the two sites based on automation to curate and deliver content to this community.
Of the five original groups, I maintain DevOps Chat and LaraChat, which combined have about 50,000 members.
These communities were instrumental in my levelling up my skills, which is why I continue to manage and build them.
Honors & Awards
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Molson Canadian Anything for Hockey
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I was one of 12 Canadians chosen, out of 10,000 applicants, to play hockey on top of a mountain.
http://howtohockey.com/the-anything-for-hockey-team/
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Gold Medal, Team Canada, Deaf Hockey
Deaflympics
Selected to play for Team Canada in 2003 for the Canadian Deaf Hockey Program in Sweden.
This was a high calibre team, including some former professional players.
Won a gold medal in the Deaflympics
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