Alastair Daivis
Senior Software Engineer at Instaclustr
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlastair Daivis is a senior software engineer based in Melbourne with 12 years of experience focused on mobile client infrastructure, performance, and efficiency. He has shipped high-impact work at Facebook (Messenger) and Google before moving into distributed systems and platform engineering at Instaclustr. Combining deep mobile performance expertise with a Master's in Information Technology (Distributed Systems) from the University of Melbourne, he bridges client-side optimizations and backend reliability. Known for squeezing latency and resource use out of complex clients, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to engineering trade-offs. Outside engineering he maintains a background in music performance (percussion), reflecting a disciplined attention to timing and detail.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Melbourne UniversityThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (67)
golang8
menu8
programming-language8
organizer7
console7
scripting7
go7
macbook-pro7
touchbar7
macos-big-sur6
interpreter6
menubar6
unix-command6
rust6
cli6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alaroldai/hammerspoon-config
Sep 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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