Alistair Shepherd
Head Of Development at Series Eight
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlistair Shepherd is a seasoned front-end leader with eight years’ experience crafting high-performance, accessible websites, e-commerce platforms and web apps, now serving as Head of Development at Series Eight. He moved up internally from Frontend Developer to Lead Developer before taking on technical direction and process optimisation for a 10-person team. Comfortable across the full stack from his freelance years, he combines creative development with a relentless focus on performance and simplicity. A regular blogger and conference speaker from Edinburgh, he advocates for pragmatic accessibility and faster, leaner web experiences. Notably, his background in computational physics gives him a data-minded approach to problem solving and front-end optimisation.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma for Higher Education in Physics, Computational Physics, Diploma for Higher Education in Physics, Computational Physics at The University of DundeeHigh School, High School at Grantown Grammar School
English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
220reached
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Github Skills (85)
cookie-consent10
alpinejs10
lazy-loading10
eleventy10
editor9
twitter9
placeholder9
geolocation9
microsoft9
ccpa9
visual-studio-code9
indieweb9
electron9
typescript9
cookie9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Accudio/opera-new-tab-page
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Accudio/cead-consent
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Simple, lightweight and easy-to-implement Cookie/Tracking consent manager for the web
Contributions:7 releases, 28 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
cookie-consentprivacyconsentccpatracking
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