Alastair Taft
Technical Lead at HumanableCX
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolAlastair Taft is a Technical Lead and freelance software engineer based in Hobart, Tasmania, with 11 years of experience delivering customer-focused web and SaaS solutions. He combines hands-on development and team leadership across startups and agencies, currently guiding technical direction at HumanableCX while also contributing at Luna IT. His background spans full-stack development roles from Industel through oppizi and RWITL, demonstrating consistency in shipping product features and improving engineering practices. Alastair holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Reading and brings a pragmatic, client-facing mindset honed by freelance partnerships and agency work. A detail that hints at his playful technical curiosity: his GitHub bio encodes an unusual string rather than a typical bio, suggesting an affinity for lightweight obfuscation and experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of ReadingBTEC National Diploma for ICT Practioners (Software Development), BTEC National Diploma for ICT Practioners (Software Development) at North Devon Community College
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
testing10
material-ui10
svg10
serverless10
middleware10
html10
firebase-database10
draft-js10
expo-router10
nodejs10
svelte10
editors10
contenteditable10
icc10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AlastairTaft/node-doc-generator
Jun 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
AlastairTaft/route-expedite
Jul 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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