Shaun O'Connell
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Shaun O'Connell

Front-end developer in Cape Town, South Africa, He/Him

Looking for a dream job in a design-lead social-enterprise or non-profit, building a Web for everyone.

Also offering free front-end development mentoring - get in touch!

4 years ago

I fill the gaps between design and development, building for a progressively-enhanced and resilient web.

Projects

2021
Lil Regie's Front-end Workshop at Lil Regie

Together with Juri Hahn and Tim James, I've been building a pattern library, documentation, and a node package for the Lil Regie team so that they have all the web assets they need to build public-facing web properties.

2019

Together we built and designed a design system for the various microservice front-ends within the Flick Electric experience.

I was responsible for the development of the design system, and most of the code it produces.

Speaking

2019
Wellington, NZ

Sophie and I presented all we learned during the design and development of a bespoke design system to the ~200 attendees at Kiwi Ruby.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Cape Town, RSA

Building and maintaining design systems, pattern libraries, mentoring.

2023 — 2023
Contract Technical Lead - Front-end at Te Whatu Ora
Wellington, NZ

Design systems consultancy, prototyping, and architecting

2021 — 2022
2020 — 2020
Mahanoro, Madagascar

Computer literacy and web development teacher for 20 Malagasy students on a 9-month contract.

2018 — 2019
Wellington, NZ

Lead front-end developer, managing several web properties under the Flick experience.

Design System development
Static Site Generator development
Ruby on Rails front-end work

2014 — 2018
2013 — 2014
Cape Town, South Africa
2011 — 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
2010 — 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
2006 — 2008
2003 — 2006
Johannesburg, South Africa
1999 — 2003
Johannesburg, South Africa

Volunteering

2015 — 2024
Front-end development mentor at Well-FED
Wellington, NZ
2008 — 2009
Cape Town, South Africa
2006 — 2006
Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Contact

Website
LinkedIn
GitHub