Shane Dowling
Engineering Manager at Syntasso
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShane Dowling is an engineering manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building and leading platform and cloud teams across startups and scale-ups in the UK. He specialises in platform engineering, cloud pragmatism and developer experience, having moved from senior platform engineer to engineering manager roles at Gousto and now Syntasso. His background spans Python, AWS, containerisation and infrastructure as code, with earlier full‑stack and founding/CTO experience shaping a pragmatic, delivery-first approach. Shane has repeatedly modernised legacy stacks and guided teams through cloud migrations and platformisation, balancing operational reliability with developer productivity. Based in Folkestone, he brings both tactical depth and people leadership, often translating complex infrastructure problems into practical, team-scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
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Github Skills (68)
python10
firmware10
genomics10
unicorns10
linux10
pipeline10
science10
cli10
boto10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
sequencing10
docker10
usb10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shano/document_keyword_analysis
Mar 2020 - Sep 2025
Takes in documents and provides an API of keyword data
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
apitakespythonkeyword
shano/streamkeeper
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
Keep those livestreams to watch whenever you want
Contributions:5 releases, 78 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 8 months
livestreamswheneverto-watchkeep
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