Alan Russell
Senior Software Engineer at Twinkl Educational Publishing
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlan Russell is a Senior Software Engineer in Glasgow with 12 years of experience building and modernising user-focused web applications, particularly in education and cultural heritage. He combines hands-on front-end expertise in React and accessibility improvements—demonstrated by contributions to the popular flexboxfroggy accessibility features—with leadership in cross-functional teams and mentorship roles. His background as a developer-instructor at CodeClan and repeated teaching stints means he’s equally comfortable explaining complex concepts as shipping production code. Alan’s career spans startups, agencies and product teams, where he’s driven UI architecture, improved testing and led customer-facing projects. An audio-technology graduate and former recording/live-sound engineer, he brings a creative, detail-oriented perspective to UX and front-end craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at CodeClanDiploma Audio Engineering, Diploma Audio Engineering at SAE Institute UKBachelor of Science (BSc) Audio Technology with Electronics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Audio Technology with Electronics at Glasgow Caledonian University
French
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Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
css10
javascript10
game-development9
flexbox9
ui-design8
html6
ajax6
jquery6
jestjs6
testing6
netlify6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thomaspark/flexboxfroggy
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
A game for learning CSS flexbox 🐸
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Alan focused on enhancing the accessibility of the flexboxfroggy game. Their primary contributions include adding a colorblindness toggle and implementing color-assisted images. They modified the JavaScript and CSS to incorporate the toggle functionality, and updated the game's logic to use the color-assisted images based on the colorblindness setting. Additionally, they restyled the accessibility button to improve the user interface.
gamecss-flexboxcss-learningcssflexbox
ajrussellaudio/car-chargers
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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