Donald Robertson
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Huggg
Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDonald Robertson is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in Perth, Scotland, with 10 years of experience building scalable front-end and back-end systems. He has led front-end delivery for business-critical products and internal tooling, driven API and observability architecture, and contributed Python back-end work for labour market insights at Beamery. His background spans high-performance network research during a PhD in Computer Networking and practical investigations into Kubernetes network performance using eBPF and perf. Donald has a strong track record of migrating monoliths to microservices with zero downtime, optimising complex algorithms (including a performant family-tree layout for 10,000 nodes), and improving operational practices like on-call and telemetry. He mentors junior engineers and consistently pairs hands-on coding with architectural leadership. Notably, he blends academic depth in streaming media with applied production engineering across diverse stacks including React, Node.js, Elixir, and Python.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Networking and Streaming Media, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Networking and Streaming Media at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at University of Stirling
Github Skills (142)
mss10
drm10
consumer-driven-contracts10
linter10
web-development10
javascript10
playback10
rust10
html5-video10
eme10
mpeg-dash10
joi10
rocket10
mse10
lang10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
03k64/winchester
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Soak Testing Tool
Contributions:3 releases, 3 PRs, 111 pushes in 2 years 5 months
testing
03k64/dash.js
May 2020 - Nov 2023
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Contributions:79 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 7 months
dashbrowserscompliantjavascriptmp4
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