Alec Mceachran
Staff Software Engineer at Malted AI
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlec Mceachran is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Edinburgh with over 16 years of professional experience and a 20+-year background in interactive and game development. He builds high-performance, WebGL and TypeScript-driven visualisation and presentation software, most recently at Malted AI and previously as Principal Developer at KPV LAB where he combined GLSL and HTML5 to drive immersive data experiences. His career includes senior roles at Google and YouTube working on Firebase and the YouTube TV HTML5 app, and leadership of front-end engineering for live MMOs and social games at Kabam, PLAYSTUDIOS and Gaia Interactive. Alec pairs a rigorous engineering approach with a designer’s sensitivity to interactivity and performance, having moved from Flash-era MMO engines to modern WebGL pipelines. Trained in philosophy and mathematics education, he brings an analytical, cross-disciplinary mindset to UX and system design and a knack for making technically dense visualisations feel intuitive.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MA hons., Mental Philosophy, MA hons., Mental Philosophy at The University of EdinburghPGCE, Mathematics Education, PGCE, Mathematics Education at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (98)
atom-editor10
svg10
webgpu10
3d10
javascript10
test-coverage10
webgl10
wallabyjs10
virtual-reality10
augmented-reality10
canvas10
webxr10
continuous-testing9
threejs9
actionscript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alecmce/as3geometry
Nov 2009 - Oct 2011
Contributions:43 commits in 1 year 11 months
actionscriptjavascriptgeometry-librarytypescriptgeometry
alecmce/dust
Mar 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:110 commits in 7 months
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