Alasdair Ferguson
Self Employed
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAlasdair Ferguson is a Sydney-based freelance web developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and integrations. He has practical expertise in Go, evidenced by contributions to the braintree-go client where he implemented customer ID reassignment and tightened webhook verification logic. Comfortable operating as a solo consultant, he combines API-focused backend work with the pragmatism needed to deliver client projects end-to-end. His open-source fixes show attention to correctness in payment and webhook flows—skills that matter for production reliability. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers solving real problems over polishing résumés, and he’s currently open to reconnecting with former collaborators and new clients.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
management10
customer10
go10
manage10
api10
braintree10
apidoc10
webhooks10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
braintree-go/braintree-go
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
A Go client library for Braintree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Alasdair primarily contributed to the `customer_gateway.go` and `webhook_notification_gateway.go` files within the Braintree Go client library. They added a new function, `ReassignId`, to handle customer ID reassignment and then debugged that feature. Additionally, the user implemented and then corrected a function, `Verify`, for webhook challenge verification. These changes indicate an understanding of the library's core functions and API interactions.
golangclient-librarygo-clientadyenpayment-processing
AlasdairF/Titlecase
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:90 commits, 33 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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