Alistair Mckinlay
Senior Software Developer at Nearform
Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlistair Mckinlay is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years' experience building responsive web applications and UX-focused front ends, currently contributing at NearForm from Dunfermline, Scotland. He is fluent in JavaScript (Node.js and multiple frontend frameworks), HTML5 and Java, with practical exposure to PHP, Python and shell scripting. Alistair combines hands-on engineering with an academic grounding from a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde and a track record of senior roles across consultancies and product teams. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving thelounge — a popular self-hosted web IRC client — where he focused on Firefox compatibility, visual polish and configurable highlights. Colleagues know him for pragmatic UI fixes that punch above their weight in cross-browser reliability and user experience. Outside work he maintains personal projects and continues to refine The Lounge, showing a steady commitment to user-facing open-source software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of StrathclydeWilliamwood High School
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Github Skills (8)
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vuejs310
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vuejs210
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thelounge/thelounge
Feb 2016 - Aug 2020
💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 150 commits, 175 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the web IRC client. Their contributions included modifying the HTML structure for the user buttons to improve Firefox compatibility, fixing word wrapping issues, and correcting styles for user elements. They also implemented custom highlight features by adding a configuration option and integrating a comma-separated keywords input, along with fixing some minor visual issues. The changes involve modifications to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.
hostedchatjavascripttheloungeirc-client
YaManicKill/pdd
Apr 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 47 PRs, 41 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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