Albert Still
Founder at Tern
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlbert Still is a founder and seasoned full‑stack software engineer with 13 years’ experience building scalable web products and teams, currently leading Tern to encourage active commuting using AI-driven detection. Previously a Principal Software Engineer at Domain, he combined hands‑on Node and React development with leadership of design, frontend and GraphQL guilds to modernise large, high‑traffic systems. A King’s College Computer Science graduate, he’s an active open‑source contributor—improving popular JavaScript algorithm repos—and authored a viral explainer on the Enigma machine that reached Reddit and Hacker News front pages. Comfortable shipping across backend, frontend and mobile (React Native) stacks, he blends product intuition with engineering craft and a proven track record of turning legacy platforms into modern architectures.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School A-levels - Maths Physics Economics Film & Video, High School A-levels - Maths Physics Economics Film & Video at Exeter CollegeBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at King's College London
Stackoverflow
989reputation
40kreached
7answers
11questions
amazon-s3
top-5%
Github Skills (15)
algorithms10
javascript10
sorting-algorithms10
testing9
amazon-s39
data-structures8
data-structure8
computer-science8
quicksort6
stripe-payments6
unit-testing6
html5-canvas6
amazon-web-services6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trekhleb/javascript-algorithms
May 2018 - May 2018
📝 Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript with explanations and links to further readings
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Albert's contributions primarily focused on improving and refactoring sorting algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript. They made changes to algorithms like BubbleSort, ShellSort, QuickSort, and InsertionSort, as well as data structures like MinHeap and Comparator utilities. The work involved updating test cases and ensuring the algorithms function correctly. The user also made commits that updated and improved the existing code base.
explanationsjavascriptalgorithms-and-data-structuresbinary-treecomputer-science
albertstill/graphql
Jul 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 11 months
queryquery-languageexecution-enginebackendbackend-service
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