Aidan Mcquay
Lead Developer at HowToMedia Inc.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Mcquay is a Lead Developer with 14 years’ experience building standards-compliant, highly usable web applications and sites from Victoria, BC. He combines pragmatic front-end expertise in XHTML/CSS and AJAX with a PHP/MySQL backend practice, and leverages open source platforms—especially Drupal—to rapidly deploy complex content-driven systems. As Lead Developer at HowToMedia, he helps scale a portfolio reaching millions of monthly users and oversees a flagship how-to publishing site with tens of thousands of articles. Aidan is also a co-founder of FloatSolutions, reflecting his entrepreneurial bent and product-focused mindset. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful tradeoffs between usability and functionality and for shipping reliable, maintainable web platforms.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IST, Information Systems Technology, IST, Information Systems Technology at RRC Polytech
Stackoverflow
752reputation
36kreached
19answers
4questions
Github Skills (118)
vim10
emacs10
spacemacs9
gnu9
font-awesome9
gherkin9
tmux9
user-experience9
ansible8
npm-package8
displays8
docker8
octicons8
zsh8
fonts8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
math0ne/keyboard-gherkin
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
The layout for my Gherkin Keyboard
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
gherkin
math0ne/windows-tiling-window-manager
Aug 2015 - May 2020
:white_square_button: A very simple tiling window manager for Windows 7 - 10.
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
window-managerwindows
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