Blair Calderwood
Technical Lead at OakNorth
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Calderwood is a Technical Lead and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web systems across consultancy and startup environments, currently based in London. He specialises in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem—React, Node, Next.js—plus cloud platforms like AWS and GCP, and has led multi-team efforts delivering multi-million pound products. Blair combines hands-on engineering (including microservices, Kubernetes, TDD and component libraries) with people leadership, having grown and mentored engineering teams from single digits to 25+ and later stepped into VP-level responsibilities. He’s an experienced consultant who translates fuzzy client problems into executable technical strategy, and has authored internal engineering culture guidance and onboarding bootcamps. Outside day-to-day delivery he teaches technical courses and writes long-form pieces to upskill engineers and attract new talent, reflecting a passion for knowledge sharing that complements his delivery focus.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Games Development, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Games Development at University of the West of ScotlandMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Glasgow
English
Github Skills (15)
boost8
nodejs6
secrets2
security2
aws2
internal-tools2
jekyll2
aws-lambda1
prismicio1
trigger1
circleci1
nextjs1
serverless-framework1
react1
prismic1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blaircalderwood/serverless-scaffolder
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 34 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 months
blaircalderwood/scan-for-secrets
May 2019 - May 2019
Scan your repository for AWS secrets before committing.
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
securityscansecretsaws
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