Paul Shannon
Chief Technology Officer at eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd.
Biggleswade, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Shannon is a seasoned technology leader with nine years in senior roles, currently Head of Technology & Innovation at eLife where he drives cross-functional, open-source teams to modernise scholarly publishing. He combines deep expertise in agile, lean and XP practices with a talent for translating complex technical strategy into compelling funding cases—securing multi-million dollar grants from major funders like Wellcome and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Paul has launched major products rapidly (e.g., eLife’s Reviewed Preprint in six months) and helped establish sciety.org and enduring collaborations across the publish-review-curate ecosystem. A regular international speaker, author and community organiser, he also pioneers diverse hiring pipelines and apprenticeship programmes to grow sustainable engineering talent. Less obvious: his career blends hands-on delivery from earlier developer and lead roles with long-term ecosystem-building that moves organisations from “open code” to community-driven open infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of NottinghamWelbeck Road Infant SchoolBrookfield Community School
German
Github Skills (60)
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grobid8
publisher8
data-science7
journal7
biomedical7
open-access7
xpub6
defaults6
open-source6
annotate5
vcenter5
react5
java5
sprint4
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
pointstarting-pointpublisherlibero
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