Alex Shaw
Software Engineer at Glastonbridge Software
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Shaw is a versatile software engineer and engineering manager from Edinburgh with 16 years delivering full-stack and systems-level solutions through his company Glastonbridge Software. He combines Typescript/Python/React web work with C++/.NET Unity VR/AR and OpenGL/WebGL graphics, and has shipped desktop, mobile, embedded hardware and computer-vision projects for clients and research teams. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, he blends requirements gathering, product design, QA and technical writing with hands-on development and occasional soldering. Recent roles include senior and contract engineering for companies like RiskFirst, KPV LAB and Skyscanner, where he tackled React, GraphQL and 3D graphics challenges. An active creative technologist, he organises community coding events on Twitch and even integrates performance art—he can breakdance and has built AR dance performances and haptic sculpting tools.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
actionscript
Github Skills (58)
minecraft10
adafruit10
makecode10
blockly10
bit10
javascript9
typescript9
ace-editor9
editorjs9
experiment9
code-editor8
editor8
supercollider6
android6
shader6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
glastonbridge/ScanVox
Aug 2010 - Nov 2010
Contributions:52 commits in 2 months
glastonbridge/livecode.demozoo.org
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
list of events of shader live coding, hopefuly including results and links
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
eventswebglshaderslive-codinglinks
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