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Hi, I'm Shannon Richard Henderson, a Senior Full Stack Developer with over 9 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native applications. I specialize in modern frontend and backend technologies, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. I love collaborating with teams across the globe to deliver high-quality software that's both efficient and user-friendly. Throughout my career, I've worked on diverse projects, from enterprise CI/CD platforms to SaaS products and game development. I enjoy leading architecture design and mentoring fellow engineers while continuously improving performance and reducing costs. I’m passionate about solving problems and creating innovative digital solutions.…Hi, I'm Shannon Richard Henderson, a Senior Full Stack Developer with over 9 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native applications. I specialize in modern frontend and backend technologies, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. I love collaborating with teams across the globe to deliver high-quality software that's both efficient and user-friendly. Throughout my career, I've worked on diverse projects, from enterprise CI/CD platforms to SaaS products and game development. I enjoy leading architecture design and mentoring fellow engineers while continuously improving performance and reducing costs. I’m passionate about solving problems and creating innovative digital solutions.

Shannon Richard Henderson

Full Stack Developer, DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, +3

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Hi, I'm Shannon Richard Henderson, a Senior Full Stack Developer with over 9 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native applications. I specialize in modern frontend and backend technologies, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. I love collaborating with teams across the globe to deliver high-quality software that's both efficient and user-friendly. Throughout my career, I've worked on diverse projects, from enterprise CI/CD platforms to SaaS products and game development. I enjoy leading architecture design and mentoring fellow engineers while continuously improving performance and reducing costs. I’m passionate about solving problems and creating innovative digital solutions.…Hi, I'm Shannon Richard Henderson, a Senior Full Stack Developer with over 9 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native applications. I specialize in modern frontend and backend technologies, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. I love collaborating with teams across the globe to deliver high-quality software that's both efficient and user-friendly. Throughout my career, I've worked on diverse projects, from enterprise CI/CD platforms to SaaS products and game development. I enjoy leading architecture design and mentoring fellow engineers while continuously improving performance and reducing costs. I’m passionate about solving problems and creating innovative digital solutions.

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Hi, I’m Shannon Richard Henderson, a Senior Full Stack Developer with over 9 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native applications. I specialize in modern frontend and backend technologies, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices. I love collaborating with teams across the globe to deliver high-quality software that’s both efficient and user-friendly.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked on diverse projects, from enterprise CI/CD platforms to SaaS products and game development. I enjoy leading architecture design and mentoring fellow engineers while continuously improving performance and reducing costs. I’m passionate about solving problems and creating innovative digital solutions.

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer at Buildkite

April 30, 2025 - July 17, 2025

Led full-stack feature development for Buildkite’s enterprise CI platform used by thousands of engineering teams globally. Designed and built React/TypeScript interfaces for pipelines, agent monitoring, and analytics dashboards. Architected scalable APIs in Node.js and Go, integrating with AWS Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB. Drove CI/CD automation efforts using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD. Collaborated closely with product and design to improve UX for self-hosted customers. Key projects included Pipeline Orchestration Engine reducing deployment time by 50%, Build Analytics Dashboard improving CI performance visibility, and Self-Hosting Deployment Kit enabling streamlined on-prem installations using Kubernetes and Helm. Achievements include reducing cloud costs by 30%, presenting architecture sessions, and mentoring engineers while introducing Domain-Driven Design standards.

Full Stack Developer at Atlassian

December 31, 2021 - July 17, 2025

Contributed to internal tools and public APIs supporting Jira and Trello teams, focusing on scalable microservices, DevOps integration, and performance-first frontend features. Modernized legacy services using Node.js microservices and React front-ends. Integrated CI metrics dashboards with ElasticSearch and internal observability tools. Key projects included migrating services from monoliths to containerized microservices using Kubernetes and leading performance audit of Trello’s onboarding UI, improving speed by 35%. Achievements include improving developer experience with reusable libraries adopted across teams and boosting test coverage significantly during platform refactor.

Full Stack Developer at SilverStripe

April 30, 2018 - July 17, 2025

Developed and maintained client portals, CMS features, and cloud-deployed web services using React, Redux, Laravel, and GraphQL APIs. Worked across multiple major client projects, wrote automated tests, and conducted peer code reviews. Key projects included refactoring a permissions module in a multi-tenant government compliance system and implementing GraphQL-powered content APIs for the SilverStripe CMS. Achievements include reducing release cycle time by 40% through improved test coverage and CI/CD processes and contributing to open-source plugins used by NZ dev teams.

Junior Full Stack Developer at Enlighten Designs

June 30, 2016 - July 17, 2025

Contributed to CMS and data portal projects using ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and SQL Server in an Agile environment. Participated in sprints, feature implementation, client demos, API integration, and cross-browser testing. Developed a reporting dashboard and a reusable UI component library to help reduce development time and improved page load times significantly. Earned early promotion due to quality delivery and collaboration.

Senior Full Stack Developer at Buildkite

April 30, 2025 - August 1, 2025

Led full-stack feature development for Buildkite’s enterprise CI platform used by thousands of engineering teams globally. Designed and built React/TypeScript interfaces for pipelines, agent monitoring, and analytics dashboards. Architected scalable APIs in Node.js and Go, integrating with AWS Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB. Drove CI/CD automation efforts using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD. Collaborated closely with product and design to improve UX for self-hosted customers. Key projects included a Pipeline Orchestration Engine which reduced deployment time by 50%, a Build Analytics Dashboard adopted by 80% of clients, and a Self-Hosting Deployment Kit for streamlined on-prem installations using Kubernetes and Helm. Achievements include reducing cloud costs by 30%, presenting architecture sessions, and mentoring engineers while introducing Domain-Driven Design standards.

Full Stack Developer at Atlassian

December 31, 2021 - August 1, 2025

Contributed to internal tools and public APIs supporting Jira and Trello, focusing on scalable microservices, DevOps integration, and frontend performance. Modernized legacy services with Node.js microservices and React front-ends. Integrated CI metrics dashboards with ElasticSearch and observability tools. Led migration of 6+ services from monoliths to Kubernetes containerized microservices and conducted a performance audit improving Trello’s onboarding UI speed by 35%. Achievements include improving developer experience with reusable internal libraries and boosting test coverage from 58% to 90%.

Full Stack Developer at SilverStripe

April 30, 2018 - August 1, 2025

Contributed to SaaS platforms servicing government and enterprise clients. Modernized CMS features integrating React/Redux frontends with Laravel backends and enhancing GraphQL APIs. Developed client portals, CMS features, and cloud-deployed web services. Wrote automated tests and peer-reviewed code. Key projects included refactoring a permissions module in a multi-tenant government compliance system and implementing GraphQL-powered content APIs. Achievements: reduced release cycles by 40% through better test coverage and CI/CD improvements and contributed to open-source plugins.

Junior Full Stack Developer at Enlighten Designs

June 30, 2016 - August 1, 2025

Developed custom web platforms using ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and SQL Server. Participated in Agile sprints, feature delivery, client demos, API integration, and cross-browser testing. Built a reporting dashboard for Waikato Regional Council’s analytics and created a reusable UI component library reducing development time by 20%. Achievements include reducing average page load times by 35% and earning early promotion based on delivery quality and collaboration.