Alastair Tse
Software Engineer at google
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAlastair Tse is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 22 years’ experience building user-facing products and developer frameworks, currently prototyping real-data and ML-driven product experiences in Tokyo. He led the creation of Google’s first iPhone app and the iOS UI framework used across Google’s apps, later founding and managing the Material Design engineering team and leading Google Maps’ user-generated content and reviews efforts. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and engineering leadership, he ships production iOS and web experiences and mentors cross-functional teams. An active open-source contributor, his work touches UI-focused projects from Material icons to iOS frameworks and tooling like a WebView-based macOS screensaver. He also maintains covid19japan.com and organizes Geo Tokyo Meetup, reflecting a sustained interest in civic data and local tech communities. Known for turning design sensibilities into pragmatic, well-documented code, he blends product-first thinking with deep platform expertise.
22 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Did not complete, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Did not complete at University of CambridgeUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (18)
objective-c10
webview10
ios10
css10
webpages10
file-icons10
web-content10
material-design10
glyph-icons10
html10
android-webview10
uikit10
iconsets10
user-interface9
ui-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liquidx/webviewscreensaver
Aug 2012 - Apr 2017
Mac OS X Screen Saver powered by a Web View
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alastair primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of a Mac OS X Screen Saver. They added features to fetch URLs from a JSON file, implemented a checkbox for enabling URL fetching, and refactored the project for better organization and maintainability. The user also transitioned the project to use ARC and implemented a view-based NSTableView. Further contributions included restructuring the project with new classes, and updating the codebase.
wkwebviewmac-osscreensavermacsaver
google/material-design-icons
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Material Design icons by Google (Material Symbols)
Role in this project:UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alastair primarily focused on updating and enhancing the documentation for the material design icons project. Their contributions involved modifying the `index.html` file to include visual elements and improve the presentation of the icons, such as adding PNG and SVG previews. They also made stylistic adjustments to the generated index page and updated the CSS to address rendering issues, demonstrating a strong focus on the project's user interface and overall design. Additionally, the user linkified the material icons image.
material-design-icons-by-googlematerialandroidiosmaterial-design
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