Alison Winters
Senior Back-End Engineer at Proton | Privacy by Default
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolAlison Winters is a Senior Back-End Engineer based in New Taipei with 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable server-side systems and improving developer workflows. She has driven observability, event-driven design, and cost optimizations across cloud platforms at companies like Skyscanner and Proton, and has a strong Java and Python background. Alison pairs production-grade backend engineering with full-stack sensibilities—she’s implemented CI/CD, designed REST APIs, and improved front-end UX in open source projects. An active open-source contributor, she fixed subtle C standard library bugs in the notable cosmopolitan project and has contributed ergonomics and productivity improvements for developer tooling. She’s known for mentoring peers, formalizing engineering practices, and translating ambiguous product needs into reliable, well-documented systems. Outside work she’s an advocate for clean code (and black coffee), bringing pragmatic craftsmanship to both legacy modernization and greenfield services.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science, Information Technology at RMIT University
English, Dutch, German, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
json10
javascript10
karabiner10
configuration-management10
c1110
ui-design10
kbar10
c1710
keymapping10
remapping10
smart-tv10
linux9
windows9
exp9
error-handling9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jart/cosmopolitan
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
build-once run-anywhere c library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Alison primarily contributed to the `cosmopolitan` project by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the C standard library. They added support for format specifiers like `%lf` and `%lF` in `palandprintf`, addressing a missing feature in the printf family of functions. Furthermore, the user fixed int parsing with different bases (2 and 16) and set `errno` in various `strtol` family functions, improving the robustness and standard compliance of the library. The user also improved VSCode integration.
containerspolyglotbioswindowsefi
pqrs-org/KE-complex_modifications
May 2019 - May 2019
Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alison primarily contributed to the customization of Karabiner-Elements rules. Their work focused on adding PC-style shortcuts for various functions, including emoji pickers, switching input methods, opening the Finder, Spotlight search, and launching Launchpad. They also refactored code and added the mapping for F12 keys to developer tools, specifically for Firefox, improving developer workflow.
karabinerelementskarabiner-elementsjavascriptmodifications
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