Alistair Macdonald
Owner at Alistair MacDonald
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlistair Macdonald is an experienced interaction-focused technologist and entrepreneur with 14 years of practice delivering IoT, fabrication and human-centered projects from Newcastle upon Tyne. As owner of his consultancy and a founding member of a local maker space, he blends hands-on hardware and software prototyping with community-driven fabrication expertise. His background includes managing a university FabLab and conducting interaction design research, giving him a rare mix of academic insight and practical workshop leadership. Earlier roles in product-focused engineering and a decade-plus of consultancy work underpin a strong track record of turning experimental ideas into manufacturable, user-facing systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between soldering irons, codebases and teaching, often surfacing unexpected user insights through rapid physical prototyping.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computing, Bachelor’s Degree Computing at Northumbria University
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Github Skills (54)
security-camera9
mfrc5228
camera7
api7
arduino6
react6
blink6
qbcore-framework6
rfid6
dac6
hdmi6
cnc-controller5
buster5
altium-designer5
javascript5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
barcamporguk/barcamporguk.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
alistairuk/CultureCode-Data
Mar 2012 - Mar 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years
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