Developer.
Designer.
Cloud Lover.
Shane Ducksbury.
A Few Of My Projects
fotostash
- React
- NestJS
- minIO
- MUI
- TypeORM
fotostash is a minimal web based photo album. Users can upload and view their images, and sort them into albums. fotostash is built to be a self-hostable, open source alternative to products such as Google Photos and Apple Photos.
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Transit Junction
- Mapbox GL
- React
- TypeScript
- Python
Transit Junction is a data visualisation allowing a user to playback real time transit data for Sydney's bus network.
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TeaTime
- Angular
- SpringBoot
- AWS S3
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Cloudfront
- Heroku
A serverless cloud video streaming platform built for the cloud. Using AWS, Angular and SpringBoot, I've built an application for users to upload and view video. Video is stored, transcoded and delivered entirely from AWS.
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BrightMind
- React
- Express
- Node
- Scss
- Bulma
BrightMind is a simple journaling app, built in React and using Express as an API. The deployment was automated using GitHub Actions and Docker.
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Churchill House
- HTML
- CSS
Created as an assignment for a Front End Web unit, the Churchill House site is a HTML and CSS site only, designed to delivering information in a clean and informative way. A strong focus was placed on semantic HTML in this project.
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PassPie
- HTML
- CSS
- Figma
PassPie is a set of HTML Wireframes designed to appeal to a user's emotions and encourage use of password managers.
Read More →A Little About Me
Hi, I'm Shane 👋
I'm passionate about making technology understandable, approachable and enjoyable for the end user.
I have a degree in Interaction Design and experience across a number of user focused roles, including UX/UI Design, Technical Writing and Systems Administration.
I'm currently working as a Technical Writer for Casa Systems, translating complex technical concepts into terms the end user can understand.
I previously worked at Instaclustr, an open source SaaS, where I gained experience as as a Software Engineer and UX/UI Designer, helping the customer platform team to design and develop v2 of the Instaclustr console.
I began my career as a Systems and IT Administrator, giving me a great base in the technology industry.
Here are some of the languages and tools I work with:
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- HTML / CSS / Sass
- Node / NPM
- Python
- Bash
- Docker
- Git
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Some Things I've Written
Redis vs Memcached
Caching is an important step in increasing the performance of many applications. In this article I compare Redis and Memcached.
Exploring the Power of Logstash
Logstash is a tool for sending logs to Elasticsearch. In this post I learn how it works and map live satellite location data directly onto a heatmap.
Elastic Beats and Where They Fit With ELK Stack
Using Docker and Elastic Beats I push live satellite data from dozens of satellites into OpenDistro for Elasticsearch.
Running A Prometheus Server on AWS ECS
In this blog post I detail how to create a custom Prometheus container and configuration to run on AWS ECS.