Donald Nairn
Senior Application Developer
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDonald Nairn is a Senior Application Developer and software architect with over 15 years of experience building everything from 3D medical visualisation clients to cloud-hosted .NET web platforms, currently delivering solutions at Baillie Gifford from Edinburgh. He combines hands-on C#/.NET and TypeScript expertise with disciplined practices—TDD, design patterns and CI—to produce maintainable systems and has six years’ experience leading teams of up to seven engineers across support and development. At Moody’s Analytics he led performance optimisations that cut request times dramatically, merged long-lived forks into shared codebases, and ran successful cloud-hosting and repo migration programmes. He contributes to open-source front-end work (notably improvements to the ngHandsontable AngularJS directive) and is comfortable stepping into unfamiliar stacks such as Ruby and C++ to deliver greenfield projects. Known for pragmatic architecture and operational thinking, he blends product-focused research with delivery execution, improving developer tooling and build pipelines along the way. A First Class Computer Science and AI graduate from the University of Edinburgh, he favors measurable improvements that reduce complexity and accelerate releases.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and AI, First Class, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and AI, First Class at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (11)
datatables10
datagrid10
javascript10
datatable10
angularjs10
testing10
pagination6
stl6
handsontable6
jquery6
multimap6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
handsontable/ngHandsontable
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Official AngularJS directive for Handsontable
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Donald primarily focused on enhancing the ngHandsontable AngularJS directive. Their work involved addressing data synchronization issues within the table component, ensuring data integrity, and improving its rendering behavior. They implemented changes to the directive's core logic to correctly update the table when the underlying data changes. The user also updated the unit tests to accurately reflect the changes.
data-gridhandsontabledirectivegrid-editordynamic-table
deenairn/reviewing-a-pull-request
Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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