Alistair R
Snr Software Engineer at Roku Inc.
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair R is a senior software engineer based in Cambridge with over eight years of recent professional experience and a multi-decade background in embedded and middleware systems. He has led design and architecture efforts across consumer electronics and IoT products—most recently helping Roku scale its smart TV OS internationally by tackling i18n and regional requirements while preserving clean object models. Language-agnostic and C-rooted, he focuses on robust domain modelling and designs that minimize coding inconsistencies, and he thrives on mentoring teams distributed across locations. Outside product work he explores data science topics like genetic algorithms and network analysis applied to geopolitical problems, and he once single-handedly sailed from Chichester to Sardinia, a sign of practical self-reliance and disciplined planning.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honors, Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honors, Computer Science, 2:1 at Anglia Ruskin UniversityBachelor of Computer Science (BCompSci), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCompSci), Computer Science at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (107)
python10
scikit10
statistics10
haystack10
data-science10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
scikit-learn10
squad9
ai9
transfer-learning9
nlp9
interpretable-machine-learning9
summarization9
korean-nlp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlistairLR112/EnglandCrimeAssociations
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
AlistairLR112/haystack-core-integrations
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
Additional packages (components, document stores and the likes) to extend the capabilities of Haystack version 2.0 and onwards
Contributions:45 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
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