Alistair Roche
Software Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Roche is a polyglot software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience and eight years focused on web technologies, based in Melbourne. He’s shipped production systems across startups and scale-ups—from video and image pipelines on AWS Lambda to Rust-based firmware and cloud systems for at-home medical devices. As a founding engineer he built Mac and web apps, data pipelines (Beam/Dataflow), and human-in-the-loop tooling, and earlier led platform work at Zendesk and BookWell as CTO. He contributes to notable open-source projects, adding pagination and debugging tooling to flask-mongoengine and improving a Rust headless-Chrome API, reflecting a preference for backend and tooling improvements. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, Rust, SwiftUI and Clojure, he combines pragmatic engineering with a history of shipping cost- and performance-conscious systems. Collected experience in video, ML inference pipelines, and production tooling gives him a knack for turning research-y prototypes into resilient products.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
chrome-devtools-protocol10
wtforms10
websocket10
flask-ask10
guzzle10
mongodb-database10
php10
api10
pagination10
rust10
dbset10
psr-210
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rust-headless-chrome/rust-headless-chrome
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
A high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It is the Rust equivalent of Puppeteer, a Node library maintained by the Chrome DevTools team.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 7 reviews, 328 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily contributed to the development of a high-level API for controlling headless Chrome/Chromium using the DevTools Protocol. The commits demonstrate the implementation of core features for interacting with Chrome, including establishing a WebSocket connection, sending commands, and handling responses. They also refactored and improved existing code for extracting browser identifiers and intercepting network requests.
chromechromiumdevtoolsnode-librarypuppeteer
zendesk/zendesk_api_client_php
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Official Zendesk API v2 client library for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 13 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase by reformatting the code to match PSR-2 standards, which indicates a focus on code quality and maintainability. They also addressed debug information and converted tests to mock-http, demonstrating a commitment to improving the development workflow and testing. The user contributed to code changes within `src/Zendesk/API` which demonstrates their involvement in the Zendesk API client library implementation.
phpzendesk-api
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