Bart Reardon
SOE Developer at CSIRO
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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RockstarBart Reardon is a senior SOE developer with 12+ years at CSIRO leading macOS and Ubuntu desktop platform engineering and standard operating environment tooling. He builds and maintains open-source mac admin utilities—most notably swiftDialog and the MacAdmins outset project—and contributes UI improvements to popular tools like nudge and Installomator. Comfortable across languages (Swift, Objective-C, Python, Bash, PHP, Perl, JavaScript), he focuses on pragmatic automation and user-centered interfaces for large-scale endpoint management. Based in Canberra, he blends deep platform expertise with a knack for subtle UX refinements, such as resolution-independent layouts and blurred-background dialogs that improve adoption of security updates and installs.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (18)
scripting10
swiftui-app10
ui-design10
uid10
script10
installer10
front-end-development10
sh10
macos10
shell10
installers10
swiftui10
userscripts9
deploying9
user-interface9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Installomator/Installomator
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Installation script to deploy standard software on Macs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 184 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Bart primarily focused on enhancing the user experience of the `installomator` tool through the integration of swiftDialog. They implemented features to display download and installation progress within the tool, indicating a focus on UI/UX improvements. Additionally, the user made code modifications to handle application installations from DMG files and added labels for new applications, suggesting a role in feature development and code maintenance. The user updated external dependencies in order to follow redirects when downloading.
installationmacsshellzshscript
macadmins/nudge
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
Role in this project:UI Developer
UI DeveloperContributions:1 review, 22 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Bart primarily focused on improving the user interface of the Nudge application. Their contributions involved updating the layout to use `GeometryReader`, adding and modifying UI elements such as buttons and logos, and refactoring the positioning code to improve the overall visual appearance. The user also made changes to the simple mode to make it resolution-independent. Furthermore, they implemented a blurred background feature, adding a visual enhancement and enhancing user experience.
securityinstallationupdatesmacos-securitymacos
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