Blair Mcbride
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Mcbride is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience focused on the open web and user experience, combining deep Firefox/Toolkit expertise with hands-on product ownership of the Add-ons Manager at Mozilla. He has a background in freelance development and contracting, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to complex client and open-source projects. Based in New Zealand, Blair pairs a BA in Computer Science and Psychology with practical engineering instincts, which informs his attention to UX and developer-facing tooling. Although officially retired due to health reasons, he continues to dabble in code, electronics, and art, staying connected to the community and experimenting with creative technical work. His career blends large-scale browser engineering with grassroots open-web advocacy, reflecting a rare mix of product stewardship and low-level implementation skill. Notably, his work on Firefox and contributions to projects like Ubiquity and DSpace/NZ signal a long-standing commitment to open-source platforms.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Psychology, BA, Computer Science, Psychology at University of Otago
English
Github Skills (98)
forking10
sphinx-doc10
mojolicious10
python10
perl10
automation10
esp3210
home-assistant10
thunderbird10
mqtt10
firefox10
yaml10
home-automation10
platformio10
git10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JavaScript-NZ/Society-Documentation
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Society documentation for JavaScript NZ Incorporated
Contributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
javascriptjsinterop
Unfocused/esphome-docs
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
Source for esphome.io documentation files.
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
esphomesphinx-docsphinx
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