Alasdair King
Engineering Manager at Everway
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlasdair King is an experienced engineering manager and assistive-technology specialist with two decades of software development and leadership, including building the WebbIE suite used worldwide by blind users. He combines hands-on expertise in C++, Java, C#, JavaScript and other languages with product, architecture and people leadership, having grown from research at the University of Manchester to Managing Director of Claro Software and senior engineering roles at Texthelp and Everway. He holds a PhD in Assistive Technology and has led cross-country teams, streamlined agile processes, and recruited and mentored engineers to deliver consistent user-focused value. Comfortable in both small-company generalist roles and focused engineering positions in larger organisations, he’s motivated by nurturing colleagues and creating software that materially improves independence for people with disabilities. A pragmatic technologist with a long history on the Windows platform and screenreader development, he still laughs about one impressive-but-doomed VR project—evidence of a willingness to experiment.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Assistive Technology, PhD Assistive Technology at The University of Manchester
English
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Github Skills (33)
ghostscript8
vcredist6
wifi6
adobe-experience-manager6
windows6
vb66
wix6
forms6
windows-installer6
sarif6
autocad6
dokuwiki5
render5
scripting5
mediawiki5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlasdairKing/PDFReader
Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
The WebbIE PDF Reader, a simple WinForms project that uses GhostScript, Tesseract and PDFTOTEXT to render PDF files as plain text for screenreader users.
Contributions:4 PRs, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
renderscreenreaderpdfpdftotextpdf-reader
AlasdairKing/Podcatcher-VB6
Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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