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
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Github Skills (114)
cookie-consent10
tencent10
site-generator10
lazy-loading10
static-site10
eleventy10
editor9
twitter9
placeholder9
geolocation9
kotlin-android9
azure9
terraform9
visual-studio9
microsoft9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Accudio/speedscanner.org
May 2020 - Jul 2023
Website for Speedscanner web performance monitoring. Hosted at speedscanner.org
Contributions:5 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 2 months
performance-monitoringhostedperformanceweb-performancemonitoring
Accudio/opera-new-tab-page
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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