Paul Shannon
Head Of Technology Innovation
Biggleswade, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Shannon is a seasoned technology leader steering open scholarly infrastructure at eLife Sciences Publications and Sciety, where he unifies product, UX, and open-source development to deliver scalable publishing ecosystems. With eight years of leadership experience and a deep background in agile, lean, and XP practices, he excels at turning complex technical concepts into actionable strategies for cross-disciplinary teams. He has secured multi-million-dollar funding from Wellcome, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NLNet, Arcadia Fund, and other funders to advance eLife's publish, review, curate model and related projects. He launched the technology behind eLife's Reviewed Preprint in six months, and helped establish sciety.org as open scholarly infrastructure through open-source collaborations with the Coko Foundation, Knowledge Futures Group, EMBO, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. A regular international conference speaker, author, and community organizer, he is also known for recruiting diverse technology teams and pioneering apprenticeship programs. Based in Biggleswade, England, and a University of Nottingham computer science graduate, he brings both strategic vision and hands-on delivery to high-impact open science initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Nottingham
German
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
libero/editor
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Expedite your production workflow with our open tools and management system
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
management-systemexpediteproductionworkflow
libero/publisher
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
The starting point for raising issues for Libero Publisher
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
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