Alastair Carey
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlastair Carey is a software development engineer with over a decade of prior industry experience and a recent return to tech after a 15-year career as a professional classical musician. He blends deep backend and data design skills with creative problem-solving honed on international concert stages, currently focusing on Rust backends, Dart/Flutter front-ends, and reproducible deployments with Docker and Kubernetes. Alastair has practical experience at Amazon and AWS through a returnship and ongoing SDE role, and earlier architecture and systems work delivering data-driven reporting, VPN networking, and enterprise integrations. His background spans C++, PL/SQL, and Linux-based infrastructure alongside formal training in mathematics, computer science, and advanced musical performance. Colleagues benefit from his strong communication and multidisciplinary perspective that bridges rigorous engineering with user-focused design. He is based in London and uniquely positioned to apply discipline and collaboration learned in high-pressure performance settings to scalable, maintainable software systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Advanced Studies, Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies, Master of Advanced Studies, Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies at Schola Cantorum BasiliensisMaster of Music, Choral Performance, Distinction, Master of Music, Choral Performance, Distinction at University of CambridgeBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (57)
pdf10
poppler10
sdk10
dart2js10
pdfium10
programming-language9
chromium9
flutter9
dart9
rust8
taffydb8
trie8
localstorage7
isomorphic7
decoding7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ajrcarey/dart-rust-minimal-ffi-grpc-example
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Protocol buffers and GRPC between Dart and Rust over FFI
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
protocol-buffersrustgrpcdartbuffers
ajrcarey/pdfium-render
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
A high-level idiomatic Rust wrapper around Pdfium, the C++ PDF library used by the Google Chromium project.
Contributions:7 reviews, 7 commits, 37 PRs in 11 months
idiomaticpdfpdf-libraryrustpoppler
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