Daniel Shorten
Product Manager at Knower Tech
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Shorten is a product-focused software leader with 13 years of industry experience and a proven track record of designing, coding, and shipping production systems across startups and enterprise teams. Currently a Product Manager at Knower Tech, he progressed from hands-on development roles and team leadership to shaping product strategy while still mentoring engineers and driving technical delivery. His technical strengths include Python, Django, JavaScript and AWS, and he has deep practical experience building web interfaces, REST services, and automated systems dating back to work on OpenMRS and a social-media-driven trading engine. Daniel is noted for fostering collaborative, growth-oriented teams that balance pragmatic engineering with user-centered product thinking. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a Product Management certificate from BrainStation, combining formal software foundations with modern product practice. Based in Edmonton, he brings a rare mix of long-tenured development craft and frontline product ownership that shortens the path from idea to reliable release.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate - Product Management, Professional Certificate - Product Management at BrainStationDiploma, Computer Systems Technology, Diploma, Computer Systems Technology at Red Deer PolytechnicB.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge
English, French
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Github Skills (32)
render10
webservice10
restful-api9
after-effects9
java9
api9
rest-api8
js8
cli8
rest8
android7
restful7
automation7
django7
openmrs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
danielshorten/k9t9
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
T9 keyboard for Android
Contributions:4 releases, 58 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year
android
AdRetriever/django-guardian
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Per object permissions for Django
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 4 tags in 3 years 4 months
djangopermissionspythonauthentication
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