Alaister Young
Software Engineer at Nitrogen Education Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarAlaister Young is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience, currently contributing to Supabase from Melbourne while also co-founding Nitrogen Education. He blends full‑stack craft—shipping front-end UI work, GraphiQL integrations, and API key tooling—with back-end auth improvements across high-profile open-source Supabase projects like supabase-js and auth-js. His recent contributions strengthened session handling, token retrieval, and realtime compatibility with gotrue v2, and he’s added tests and refactors that improve robustness and developer ergonomics. Known to "walk like a penguin" on GitHub, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a taste for playful curiosity and product-focused thinking.
11 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
client-library10
authorizations10
authentication10
typescript10
user-authentication10
nextjs10
wpgraphql10
user-management10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
authorization10
graphql10
typescripts10
supabase10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
supabase/auth-js
May 2022 - Oct 2022
An isomorphic Javascript library for Supabase Auth.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 58 commits, 43 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alaister primarily focused on enhancing the authentication and authorization features within the Supabase Auth JavaScript library. Their contributions involved implementing new methods, such as `getSession` and `getUser`, and documenting their usage. Additionally, the user made changes to improve the session handling and refresh mechanisms, including refactoring code to use the `Deferred` helper class and ensuring that session data is correctly persisted. These changes also included adding new tests to support the implementation.
isomorphic-javascriptjavascript-libraryauthorizationuser-managementsupabase
supabase/supabase
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2405 reviews, 413 commits, 1000 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alaister's commits primarily focused on front-end development within the Supabase project. Their contributions included moving and integrating GraphiQL into the API docs section by modifying layout components and pages. Furthermore, the user added features to implement the API key header to GraphiQL headers section and removed unnecessary comments. They also worked on putting GraphiQL behind a feature flag and ensuring the correct display of the table's information.
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