Craig Sharkie
Principal Experience Engineer at Machinetag
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolCraig Sharkie is a Principal Experience Engineer with 12+ years of professional depth (and over two decades of practical front-end experience) who specializes in crafting user- and developer-centric web and Connected TV experiences. He founded and has run SydJS for over a decade, co-authored the best-selling jQuery: Novice to Ninja, and regularly blends teaching, community building, and hands-on consulting to drive product and team growth. Craig has led front-end and OTT initiatives at major media and telco organisations, delivering performant, accessible HTML5/CSS3/JS solutions across diverse device ecosystems including HbbTV and set-top platforms. He couples a Fine Arts background with pragmatic engineering to design delightful experiences that measurably improve engagement and business outcomes. Recently he’s focused on consultancy and sabbatical-driven projects that prioritize user benefit over pure commercial gain, often contributing editorially and technically to legacy system modernizations. Known for balancing left- and right-brain thinking, he’s as comfortable authoring books and courses as he is shipping low-level platform work.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA Fine and Studio Arts at Western Sydney University
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Github Skills (32)
javascript9
lighthouse9
audit9
keystonejs9
playback9
performance-analysis9
nodejs9
auditing9
player9
stream9
streaming8
developer-tools8
cms8
electron7
monitoring7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
twalve/twalve.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:113 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
sydjs/sydjs_zero
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 4 PRs, 55 pushes in 5 months
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