Alan Francis
Engineering Manager at Minder Limited t/a Mindme
Inverkeithing, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlan Francis is an experienced engineering manager and hands-on developer with nearly 30 years in software and 17 years in leadership roles, currently shaping teams at Mindme from Inverkeithing, Scotland. He moves fluidly between building product-grade code (C, C++, Java, Ruby, Objective-C, Swift) and cultivating high-performing teams, happiest when doing a bit of both. His background spans large-scale agile projects and solo rescue missions—anything from 100-person programs to being parachuted in to refactor legacy code. At Sketch he led Mac teams through rapid growth and contributed to the SketchAPI test suite, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on quality and automation. He’s run regional developer conferences and community initiatives, reflecting a long-standing commitment to skills sharing and developer culture. Colleagues know him as adaptable, quietly persuasive, and equally comfortable teaching kids to code or coaching enterprise teams in Agile practices.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computing, Bachelor’s Degree, Computing at Edinburgh Napier University
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
sketch10
testing10
unit-testing9
objective-c6
ios6
coredata6
timezone6
iphone6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sketch-hq/SketchAPI
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
The JavaScript plugin library embedded in Sketch
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alan's contributions primarily involve fixing broken tests and adding new test cases within the codebase. They modified existing tests related to text line spacing and group smart layout. The user also appears to have been adding and refactoring tests related to curve points and gradients, ensuring the API reflects expected behaviors.
javascriptsketch-appsketchappembeddedsketch
acf/AFCurlRequest
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
dumpcurl
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