Alisdair Sullivan
Software Engineer at Tanium
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAlisdair Sullivan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-heavy, observable systems across startups and scale-ups, currently focused on observability at Tanium after leading large-scale querying efforts in AI at Unity. He brings deep practical skill in schemas, SQL, and test automation—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Erlang build tool rebar3 where he strengthened test infrastructure and stability. Known for a compulsive interest in ontologies and elegant data models, he favors objectives over directives and designs systems that make complex data understandable and reliable. His background spans supply-chain insights, collaborative email platforms, and AI-driven analytics, giving him a strong cross-domain intuition for instrumenting and validating pipelines. Based in Vancouver, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a wry sense of humor about Silicon Valley incentives.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
rebar10
erlang10
compilation10
testing10
build210
test-automation10
dependency-analysis9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
packager8
package8
genserver6
unicode6
cluster-computing6
interop6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
erlang/rebar3
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications and releases.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 157 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alisdair primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Erlang build tool, rebar3. Their work included adding and modifying test cases to address specific issues related to compiler options and exception handling. The commits focus on ensuring the tool's stability and proper behavior under different configurations and scenarios, improving the overall reliability of the build process. Additionally, the user corrected an EUnit test behavior and adjusted tests to use proper skip functions when required.
dependencieserlangtemplatecompilepackages
talentdeficit/jsx
Feb 2017 - Jul 2020
an erlang application for consuming, producing and manipulating json. inspired by yajl
Contributions:11 commits, 27 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 5 months
gleamerlangjsonbeam
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