Anson Mackeracher
Engineering at Hyper
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnson Mackeracher is a seasoned technology executive and engineer with 15 years building resilient, distributed systems and leading high-performing teams from startup labs to scaleups. He co-founded LegalMate, developing the first durable legal automation platform for North American legal workflows, and has held senior engineering leadership roles at Ada, Top Hat, Tilt, and Mangrove Systems. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer and strategic leader, he blends systems-level thinking with product-focused delivery across Python, Node.js and large-scale API design. An active open-source contributor, his work includes significant cross-platform improvements to the FireBreath browser-plugin framework, reflecting a deep familiarity with system internals and platform-specific rendering challenges. Based in Vancouver, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a Waterloo computer engineering background and a long-standing enjoyment of writing code that still “never seems to get old.”
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Science Computer Engineering, Applied Science Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
multiplatform10
cross-platform10
macos10
cprogramming-language10
platform-independent10
cocoa9
carbon-copy9
carbon-lang9
coregraphics8
qwebkit6
openssl6
methodology6
windows6
programming-language6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
firebreath/FireBreath
Jul 2010 - Jan 2011
Browser Plugin framework (NPAPI and ActiveX on Windows, Mac, and Linux)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anson refactored and improved support for the Mac operating system within the browser plugin framework. This involved modifying the code for handling different drawing and event models (QuickDraw, CoreGraphics, and CoreAnimation) to ensure proper rendering and user interaction. Additionally, they added support for key code mappings, enabling keyboard event handling within the plugin. The primary focus of the work was on the codebase that targets Mac OS X.
activexbrowser-pluginlinuxwindows
amackera/emacs.d
Jul 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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