Shaun Parsons
@shaunparsons
I lead engineering teams and build resilient serverless SaaS platforms on AWS.
United KingdomWhat I'm looking for
At Talis Education, I led a platform team of six and chaired incident reviews for a 24x7 rota of ten developers, helping maintain 99.99% uptime against a 99.9% contractual target. I introduced AWS CDK and an internal constructs library adopted by the full 30-person development team.
I’ve grown engineers through continuous one-to-ones, role-based sprint planning, mentoring, performance reviews, and hiring. Two developers were promoted within roughly a year of joining, while I also improved incident processes by reducing review meetings from around 90 minutes to 20.
At Parsons Group, I’m the sole developer of an event-sourced, fully serverless AWS platform used daily by external contractors. Earlier, I built a multi-tenant SaaS platform single-handed at Opilio Technologies using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Vue.js.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Platform Technical Lead
Talis Education
Sep 2018 - Apr 2023 (4 years 7 months)
Managed a team of six, owning one-to-ones and performance reviews, and introduced AWS CDK with an internal constructs library. Chaired blameless incident reviews for a 24x7 rota, maintaining 99.99% uptime.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Birmingham
Master of Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering
2007 - 2011
Grade: 2:1
Earned a Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Software Engineering with a 2:1 classification.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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Location
United KingdomAuthorized to work in
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