Alasdair Swan
Staff Engineer at OneStudyTeam
Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlasdair Swan is a staff engineer with 12 years of front-end experience, specializing in JavaScript-driven interactive and responsive web experiences for global brands and large platforms. He has led technical initiatives to make core products scalable and performant at companies like RepTrak and edX, pairing hands-on coding with team leadership and mentorship. His contributions to the Open edX LMS highlight a focus on accessibility and responsive UI consistency across devices, while prior agency work delivered polished interactive projects for clients such as adidas and Philips. Delivery-focused and adept at balancing client needs with technical constraints, he is practiced in bug triage, refactoring, and building ecosystems that accelerate feature delivery across distributed, multi-time-zone teams. A Glasgow-trained technologist with an unusual blend of philosophy and software study, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and attention to UX detail to large, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Information Technology (software), M.Sc. Information Technology (software) at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
accessibility9
react4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Sep 2014 - May 2018
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 234 commits, 143 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alasdair primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Open edX platform. They implemented and modified various user interface elements, including form layouts, and corrected issues in the student account pages. Their work involved JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and addressed both design and accessibility issues. They also contributed to the responsive design of the platform, ensuring a consistent user experience across different devices.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
openedx/frontend-component-cookie-policy-banner
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 reviews, 49 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 8 months
policyreactedxcookiebanner
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