Alasdair North
Chief Executive Officer at viaLibri Limited
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlasdair North is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 15 years of full-stack experience, now steering viaLibri— the global standard for rare book search—into its next chapter after transitioning from CTO. He combines hands-on expertise from SQL performance and ETL pipelines to modern Laravel/React and Node.js microservices on AWS, having rebuilt a legacy platform piece-by-piece while keeping it fully operational. Comfortable as a solo implementer and small-team manager, he has shipped payment integrations, admin tooling, web scrapers and public APIs, and led UI/UX redesigns informed by direct user research. Based in Cambridge with a Computer Science MA from the University of Cambridge, he brings an unusual blend of bibliophile-focused product stewardship and deep technical craft to niche, data-driven marketplaces.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High Storrs, SheffieldMA (Hons) Computer Science, MA (Hons) Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English
Github Skills (111)
phpunit10
php-vcr10
replay10
vcr10
soap-api10
api-testing10
rest-test10
codeception10
deterministic10
webservice10
php10
fluent-interface10
validation9
soap-client9
test-automation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dineshkummarc/listening-room-add-ons
Apr 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:126 commits in 2 months
alnorth/rtm-bulk-adder
Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
Contributions:58 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
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